These Are The Counties In The San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA Metro Space With The Least COVID-19
2022-01-05
As the omicron variant spreads, new daily cases of COVID-19 have hit new highs in the United States. To date, 53,506,483 Americans have been infected with the virus — and 816,686 have died as a result. On a per capita basis, the US has one of the highest known infection rates in the world.
In the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward metropolitan area, located in California, a total of 389,364 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 8,332 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 16,354 cases per 100,000 people.
The lower than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward is being driven by one area in particular.
The broader San Francisco metro area comprises five counties or county equivalents — and of them, San Francisco County in California has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 64,830 infections in San Francisco County, or 7,451 for every 100,000 people.
Not only does San Francisco County have the lowest per capita infection rate in the San Francisco metro area, it also has a relatively low per capita fatality rate.
There have been a total of 78 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in San Francisco County, below the 89 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Jan. 3, 2022.
