When it comes to reporting of COVID-19 cases and deaths, the totals usually get the most attention. But the rates of infection can sometimes tell us things we might have missed if we just looked at the totals.
And when it comes to confirmed cases per 100,00 people, and deaths per 100,000 people, Kentucky’s rural counties are actually worse off than its big cities.
For example, if we look at confirmed cases per capita, here is the map for Kentucky:
Using data from a story by the New York Times, here are the top counties in the state for cases per 100,000 people:
- Butler – 1,106
- Jackson – 441
- Hopkins – 440
- Adair – 421
- Muhlenberg – 402
- Graves – 367
- Warren – 278
- Edmonson – 264
- Grayson – 264
And here are the top counties for deaths per 100,000 people:
- Jackson – 60
- Adair – 57
- Hopkins – 50
- Butler – 39
- Graves – 38
- Lyon – 37
- Carlisle – 21
(If a county doesn’t have a population of 100,000 people, the data is extrapolated as if it did, to be able to show the rate.)
Table of COVID-19 data by county
Below is a table of all the counties in Kentucky with confirmed cases of COVID-19. You can sort by any of the columns. The data was taken from the New York Times story referenced earlier.
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