Special Report

These are the Counties in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: July 30, 2021 2:15 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 34,256,300 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin metropolitan area, located in Tennessee, a total of 259,664 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 13,929 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 10,471 cases per 100,000 people.

The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.

The broader Nashville metro area comprises 14 counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Trousdale County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 2,545 infections in Trousdale County, or 26,585 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Trousdale County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Nashville 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 219 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Trousdale County, compared to 158 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of July 28, 2021.

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