Special Report
This is the County in the Corpus Christi, TX Metro Area With the Most COVID-19
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As the delta variant continues to surge, COVID-19 continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 42,301,000 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.
In the Corpus Christi metropolitan area, located in Texas, a total of 73,429 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 16,235 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 12,929 cases per 100,000 people.
The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Corpus Christi is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.
The broader Corpus Christi metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Nueces County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 64,438 infections in Nueces County, or 17,875 for every 100,000 people.
A relatively high infection rate does not necessarily mean COVID-19 related fatalities per capita are higher in Nueces County than they are across all of the Corpus Christi area, however. There have been a total of 319 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Nueces County, in line with 316 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Corpus Christi metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Sept. 24, 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 |
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1 | Nueces County, TX | 17,875 | 64,438 | 319 | 1,149 |
2 | Aransas County, TX | 9,837 | 2,436 | 218 | 54 |
3 | San Patricio County, TX | 9,777 | 6,555 | 340 | 228 |
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