Special Report

COVID-19: This is the Most Dangerous County in the Green Bay, WI Metro Area

Samuel Stebbins

Published: May 11, 2021 4:30 am

Though vaccine distribution is well underway across the United States, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 32,210,800 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Green Bay metropolitan area, located in Wisconsin, a total of 42,667 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 13,430 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 9,845 cases per 100,000 people.

The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Green Bay is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.

The broader Green Bay metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Brown County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 35,010 infections in Brown County, or 13,476 for every 100,000 people.

A relatively high infection rate does not necessarily mean COVID-19 related fatalities per capita are higher in Brown County than they are across all of the Green Bay area, however. There have been a total of 109 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Brown County, compared to 119 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Green Bay metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 9, 2021.

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