Special Report

COVID-19: This is the Least Dangerous County in the Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA Metro Area

Samuel Stebbins

Published: June 18, 2021 4:00 am

Despite the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination efforts, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the United States. To date, 33,151,678 Americans have been infected with the virus — and 594,888 have died as a result. On a per capita basis, the U.S. has one of the highest known infections rates in the world.

In the Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade metropolitan area, located in California, a total of 155,249 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 6,774 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 10,133 cases per 100,000 people.

The lower than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade is being driven by one area in particular.

The broader Sacramento metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents — and of them, El Dorado County in California has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 10,351 infections in El Dorado County, or 5,545 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does El Dorado County have the lowest per capita infection rate in the Sacramento metro area, it also has a relatively low per capita fatality rate.

There have been a total of 62 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in El Dorado County, below the 103 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of June 16, 2021.

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