Special Report

COVID-19: This is the Most Dangerous County in the Greensboro-High Point, NC Metro Area

Samuel Stebbins

Published: May 11, 2021 4:15 am

Though vaccine distribution is well underway across the United States, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 32,210,800 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 69,185 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 9,130 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 9,845 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 14,920 infections in Randolph County, or 10,437 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 157 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Randolph County, compared to 136 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 May 9, 2021.

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