COVID-19

247wallst.com-Though vaccine distribution is well underway across the United States, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 29,203,800 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Knoxville metropolitan area, located in Tennessee, a total of 92,483 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 10,649 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 8,926 cases per 100,000 people.

The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Knoxville is being driven disproportionately by one area in particular.

The broader Knoxville metro area comprises nine counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Roane County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 6,020 infections in Roane County, or 11,381 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Roane County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Knoxville 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 181 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Roane County, compared to 148 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Knoxville metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of March 18, 2021.