Special Report

This Is the County in the Rochester, NY Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: May 17, 2022 5:30 am

There have been 81,417,100 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow.

In the Rochester metropolitan area, located in New York, a total of 228,085 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 21,224 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 24,885 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though Rochester has fewer COVID-19 infections per capita than the national average, there are parts of the metro area that appear to be higher risk than others.

The broader Rochester metro area comprises six counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Orleans County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 9,084 confirmed infections in Orleans County, or 22,062 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Orleans County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Rochester 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 282 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Orleans County, compared to 206 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Rochester metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 13, 2022.

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