These Are the Counties in the Green Bay, WI Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Following a months long surge driven by the delta variant, new daily cases of COVID-19 are falling once again in the United States. To date, there have been 45,889,500 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Green Bay metropolitan area, located in Wisconsin, a total of 57,753 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 18,178 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 14,026 cases per 100,000 people.

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

The broader Green Bay metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Oconto County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 7,320 infections in Oconto County, or 19,491 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Oconto County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Green Bay 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 205 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Oconto County, compared to 139 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Green Bay metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Nov. 4, 2021.

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