Special Report

This Is the County in the Texarkana, TX-AR Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: October 26, 2021 2:45 am

Following a months long surge driven by the delta variant, new daily cases of COVID-19 are falling once again in the United States. To date, there have been 44,940,700 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Texarkana metropolitan area, which covers parts of Texas and Arkansas, a total of 21,070 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 14,043 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — in line with the national rate of 13,736 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though COVID-19 infections per capita are in line with the national average across Texarkana , there are parts of the metro area where this is not the case.

The broader Texarkana metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Little River County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 2,006 infections in Little River County, or 16,155 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Little River County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Texarkana area, it also has more deaths attributable to the virus per capita than the metro area as a whole. There have been a total of 580 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Little River County, compared to 337 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Texarkana metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Oct. 22, 2021.

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