Special Report

These Are the Counties in the Salisbury, MD-DE Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: December 7, 2021 4:00 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 Salisbury metropolitan area, which covers parts of Maryland and Delaware, a total of 58,005 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 14,537 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — in line with the national rate of 14,798 cases per 100,000 people.

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

The broader Salisbury metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Sussex County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 37,610 infections in Sussex County, or 17,131 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Sussex County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Salisbury 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 297 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Sussex County, compared to 267 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Salisbury metro area.

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

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