Special Report

This is the County in the Corpus Christi, TX Metro Area with the Most Deaths from COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: June 16, 2021 2:30 am

The ongoing vaccination effort is allowing life in the United States to return to some degree of normalcy after COVID-19 wreaked havoc for well over a year. So far, the virus has claimed 594,496 American lives — more than the total number of Americans killed in World War I and World War II combined.

In the Corpus Christi metropolitan area, located in Texas, a total of 1,026 deaths have been attributed to the virus, equal to 227 fatalities for every 100,000 people. Nationwide, 182 deaths have been attributed to the virus per 100,000 people.

The higher than average per capita COVID-19 death rate across the metro area is being driven by one area in particular.

The broader Corpus Christi metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents — and of them, Nueces County has had the most COVID-19 fatalities per capita. So far, the per capita coronavirus death rate in Nueces County stands at 231 for every 100,000 people.

Though it has the highest per capita death rate in the Corpus Christi metro area, Nueces County ranks among the middle 50% of all U.S. counties or county equivalents with at least one COVID-19 fatality by death rate per capita.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of June 14, 2021.

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