The Biden Administration has announced plans to inoculate 300 million Americans against the novel coronavirus by the end of the summer. Achieving this goal will, hopefully, allow 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 472,985 American lives — more than the total number of Americans killed in World War I and World War II combined.
In the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metropolitan area, which covers parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, a total of 3,937 deaths have been attributed to the virus, equal to 111 fatalities for every 100,000 people. Nationwide, the per capita death rate stands at 145 per 100,000.
Though deaths attributable to the virus are less common across the metro area than they are nationwide, this is not the case in some parts of the city.
The broader Minneapolis metro area comprises 16 counties or county equivalents — and of them, Mille Lacs County has had the most COVID-19 fatalities per capita. So far, the per capita death coronavirus death rate in Mille Lacs County stands at 179 for every 100,000 people.
Though it has the highest per capita death rate in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro area, Mille Lacs 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.
| Geography: | Deaths per 100,000 people: | Total deaths: | Confirmed cases per 100,000 people: | Total confirmed cases: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mille Lacs, MN | 179 | 46 | 8,660 | 2,228 |
| Ramsey, MN | 146 | 788 | 7,804 | 42,257 |
| Hennepin, MN | 127 | 1,569 | 7,971 | 98,486 |
| Isanti, MN | 126 | 49 | 7,697 | 3,000 |
| Anoka, MN | 109 | 380 | 9,394 | 32,638 |
| Washington, MN | 98 | 249 | 8,509 | 21,554 |
| Dakota, MN | 90 | 378 | 8,423 | 35,227 |
| Wright, MN | 85 | 113 | 9,226 | 12,247 |
| Pierce, WI | 79 | 33 | 8,211 | 3,416 |
| Sherburne, MN | 78 | 73 | 9,210 | 8,587 |
| Scott, MN | 73 | 104 | 8,996 | 12,898 |
| Le Sueur, MN | 71 | 20 | 8,141 | 2,278 |
| Sibley, MN | 60 | 9 | 7,645 | 1,140 |
| St. Croix, WI | 48 | 42 | 7,133 | 6,271 |
| Carver, MN | 40 | 40 | 7,381 | 7,412 |
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