COVID-19: This Is The Most Dangerous County In The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area

Atlanta GA

29 April, 2021

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By Samuel Stebbins, 24/7 Wall St. Atlanta 2021-04-28 Though vaccine distribution is well underway across the United States, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 31,708,400 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day. In the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metropolitan area, located in Georgia, a total of 587,139 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 10,159 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — in line with the national rate of 9,692 cases per 100,000 people. Even though COVID-19 infections per capita are in line with the national average across Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell , there are parts of the metro area where this is not the case. The broader Atlanta metro area comprises 29 counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Bartow County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 14,464 infections in Bartow County, or 13,959 for every 100,000 people. Not only does Bartow County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Atlanta 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 215 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Bartow County, compared to 148 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metro area. All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of April 26, 2021. These are all the counties in Georgia 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 Bartow County 13,959 14,464 215 223 2 Butts County 12,808 3,042 345 82 3 Barrow County 12,743 9,798 173 133 4 Cherokee County 12,608 30,501 130 314 5 Dawson County 12,556 2,996 176 42 6 Pike County 12,416 2,245 221 40 7 Walton County 11,584 10,441 282 254 8 Morgan County 11,461 2,090 159 29 9 Henry County 11,183 24,748 144 318 10 Gwinnett County 11,090 100,061 125 1,127 11 Lamar County 10,900 2,018 302 56 12 Pickens County 10,891 3,358 246 76 13 Paulding County 10,588 16,500 136 212 14 Douglas County 10,508 14,905 149 211 15 Cobb County 10,337 77,015 138 1,031 16 Newton County 10,169 10,830 220 234 17 Forsyth County 10,021 22,035 84 184 18 Jasper County 10,019 1,381 276 38 19 Coweta County 9,896 13,905 154 216 20 Carroll County 9,673 11,223 203 236 21 Spalding County 9,524 6,164 287 186 22 Meriwether County 9,345 1,973 398 84 23 Fulton County 9,336 95,406 132 1,351 24 Clayton County 9,325 25,985 167 465 25 Haralson County 9,010 2,609 280 81 26 DeKalb County 8,656 64,327 132 981 27 Rockdale County 8,400 7,477 191 170 28 Fayette County 7,889 8,786 150 167 29 Heard County 7,331 856 163 19 This story was originally published by 24/7 Wall St., a news organization that produces real-time business commentary and data-driven reporting for state and local markets across the country.