Special Report

These Are the Counties in the Greensboro-High Point, NC Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: December 7, 2021 3:15 am

Despite the ongoing vaccination effort, new daily cases of COVID-19 are beginning to rise once again in parts of the United States. To date, there have been 48,413,300 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Greensboro-High Point metropolitan area, located in North Carolina, a total of 106,500 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 14,054 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 14,798 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though Greensboro-High Point has fewer COVID-19 infections per capita than the national average, there are parts of the metro area where this is not the case.

The broader Greensboro metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Randolph County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 22,705 infections in Randolph County, or 15,882 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Randolph County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Greensboro 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 231 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Randolph County, compared to 194 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Greensboro-High Point metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Dec. 3, 2021.

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