Special Report

This is the County in the Corpus Christi, TX Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: September 14, 2021 5:15 am

As the delta variant continues to surge, COVID-19 continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 40,330,400 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Corpus Christi metropolitan area, located in Texas, a total of 70,147 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 15,509 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 12,327 cases per 100,000 people.

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

The broader Corpus Christi metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Nueces County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 61,951 infections in Nueces County, or 17,185 for every 100,000 people.

A relatively high infection rate does not necessarily mean COVID-19 related fatalities per capita are higher in Nueces County than they are across all of the Corpus Christi area, however. There have been a total of 298 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Nueces County, in line with 293 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Corpus Christi metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Sept. 10, 2021.

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