Despite the ongoing vaccination effort, new daily cases of COVID-19 are beginning to rise once again in parts of the United States. To date, there have been 46,413,700 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.
In the Wichita Falls metropolitan area, located in Texas, a total of 24,920 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 16,504 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 14,187 cases per 100,000 people.
The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Wichita Falls is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.
The broader Wichita Falls metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Wichita County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 22,066 infections in Wichita County, or 16,740 for every 100,000 people.
Not only does Wichita County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Wichita Falls 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 393 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Wichita County, compared to 374 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Wichita Falls metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Nov. 12, 2021.
These are all the counties in Texas where COVID-19 is slowing (and where it’s still getting worse).
| Rank | Geography | COVID cases per 100,000 people | Total cases | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wichita County, TX | 16,740 | 22,066 | 393 | 518 |
| 2 | Clay County, TX | 15,096 | 1,568 | 231 | 24 |
| 3 | Archer County, TX | 14,632 | 1,286 | 262 | 23 |
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