The number of COVID-19 cases has been increasing in recent days, despite the vaccination effort being made, to date, 47,702,000 cases of the virus have been reported throughout the country.
As for the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metropolitan area, located in Florida, to date a total of 1,276,987 cases of COVID-19 have been reported, adjusted by population, 21,034 infections have been reported per 100,000 people in the area, above the national rate of 14,580 cases per 100,000 people.
Meanwhile, the above-average per capita COVID-19 infection rate in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in a particular area.
In this regard, the broader Miami metropolitan area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which may include independent cities, and of these, Miami-Dade County has the highest number of COVID-19 cases per capita.
So far, there have been a total of 684,494 infections in Miami-Dade County, or 25,207 per 100,000 people.
It is important to mention that Miami-Dade County not only has the highest number of COVID-19 infections per capita in the Miami area, but also has more deaths attributable to the virus per capita than the metropolitan area as a whole.
There have been a total of 336 coronavirus deaths per 100,000 people in Miami-Dade County, compared to 301 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 in the entire Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metropolitan area. News Break publication .
