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Coronavirus: Are the number of confirmed cases increasing in your county?

By Debbie Lord, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
By Debbie Lord, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

The number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases worldwide has passed 10 million as of the last week in June, with deaths from the COVID-19 virus hitting 500,000.

A quarter of those deaths have been in the United States.

While the virus has already spread around the world, the U.S. is seeing new cases as testing is confirming a rise in infections in states that had not seen as many reported infections per capita as states such as New York or Washington.

More than 2.5 million people in the United States were confirmed to have been infected, according to numbers from Johns Hopkins University.

According to the Johns Hopkins numbers, areas in the South and Southwest are seeing a surge in cases. Cities across the South are now requiring masks to be worn in public places, including Jacksonville, Florida, where the Republican National Committee nominating convention will be held in August.

Here is a look at the states where new daily cases are rising over the past two weeks:

  • Idaho: 188 new cases/day
  • Florida: 5,535 new cases/day
  • Texas: 5,188 new cases/day
  • Nevada: 480 new cases/day
  • Arizona: 2,857 new cases/day
  • Mississippi: 699 new cases/day
  • Georgia: 1,597 new cases/day
  • South Carolina: 1,169 new cases/day
  • Tennessee: 818 new cases/day
  • California: 5,053 new cases/day
  • Utah: 509 new cases/day
  • Ohio: 742 new cases/day
  • North Carolina: 1,346 cases/day

Source: Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

Drilling down on the numbers, Johns Hopkins University has compiled a list of the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases by U.S. county. Here are those counties:

  1. Los Angeles, California: 95,385 confirmed
  2. Cook, New York: 89,407 confirmed
  3. Queens, New York: 64,475 confirmed
  4. Kings, New York: 58,588 confirmed
  5. Bronx, New York: 47,485 confirmed
  6. Maricopa, Arizona: 42,374 confirmed
  7. Nassau, New York: 41,725 confirmed
  8. Suffolk, New York: 41,253 confirmed
  9. Westchester, New York: 34,748 confirmed
  10. Miami-Dade, Florida: 31,562 confirmed
  11. Harris, Texas: 29,162 confirmed
  12. New York, New York: 26,661 confirmed
  13. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 25,782 confirmed
  14. Middlesex, Massachusetts: 23,859 confirmed
  15. Wayne, Michigan: 22,579 confirmed
  16. Suffolk, Massachusetts: 19,764 confirmed
  17. Dallas, Texas: 19,595 confirmed
  18. Bergen, New Jersey: 19,275 confirmed
  19. Hudson, New Jersey: 18,814 confirmed
  20. Essex, New Jersey: 18,696 confirmed
  21. Prince George’s, Maryland: 18,342 confirmed
  22. Passaic, New Jersey: 16,868 confirmed
  23. Middlesex, New Jersey: 16,724 confirmed
  24. Fairfield, Connecticut: 16,606 confirmed
  25. Union, New Jersey: 16,353 confirmed
  26. Essex, Massachusetts: 16,028 confirmed
  27. Riverside, California: 15,643 confirmed
  28. Montgomery, Maryland: 14,520 confirmed
  29. Broward, Florida: 14,046 confirmed
  30. Richmond, New York: 13,904 confirmed
  31. Fairfax, Virginia: 13,728 confirmed
  32. Rockland, New York: 13,566 confirmed
  33. Clark, Nevada: 13,174 confirmed
  34. Palm Beach, Florida: 12,928 confirmed
  35. San Diego, California: 12,837 confirmed
  36. Providence, Rhode Island: 12,712 confirmed
  37. Orange, California: 12,462 confirmed
  38. Worcester, Massachusetts: 12,303 confirmed
  39. New Haven, Connecticut: 12,275 confirmed
  40. Oakland, Michigan: 11,886 confirmed
  41. Hartford, Connecticut: 11,558 confirmed
  42. Hennepin, Minnesota: 11,415 confirmed
  43. San Bernardino, California: 11,290 confirmed
  44. Marion, Indiana: 11,182 confirmed
  45. Tarrant, Texas: 11,083 confirmed
  46. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 10,980 confirmed
  47. Orange, New York: 10,710 confirmed
  48. Salt Lake, Utah: 10,417 confirmed
  49. Mecklenburg, North Carolina: 10,287 confirmed
  50. District of Columbia: 10,216 confirmed

Here are the top 25 counties with the highest numbers of confirmed deaths from COVID-19:

  1. Queens: 5,374 deaths
  2. Kings: 5,363 deaths
  3. Cook: 4,536 deaths
  4. Bronx: 3,745 deaths
  5. Los Angeles: 3,285 deaths
  6. Wayne: 2,708 deaths
  7. New York: 2,421 deaths
  8. Nassau: 2,182 deaths
  9. Essex: 2,018 deaths
  10. Bergen: 1,983 deaths
  11. Suffolk: 1,978 deaths
  12. Middlesex, Massachusetts : 1,849 deaths
  13. Philadelphia: 1,591 deaths
  14. Hudson, New Jersey: 1,448 deaths
  15. Westchester: 1,419 deaths
  16. Fairfield: 1,375 deaths
  17. Hartford: 1,369 deaths
  18. Union: 1,324 deaths
  19. Middlesex, New Jersey: 1,317 deaths
  20. Passaic: 1,180 deaths
  21. Essex: 1,096 deaths
  22. Oakland: 1,085 deaths
  23. New Haven: 1,069 deaths
  24. Suffolk: 1,004 deaths
  25. Miami-Dade: 947 deaths

To track the confirmed cases and the number of people in your county who have died from the COVID-19 virus, click here. Look for “COVID-19 United States Cases by County” and you will see “States/Territories. Enter your state, then, to the right, enter the county you are looking for information from.

Source: Johns Hopkins University. Data is updated once per day to allow the system to pull county-level data. For the most up-to-date confirmed cases and deaths, please see the COVID-19 Global Map. New York City borough deaths data does not include probable COVID-19 deaths, as this data is not reported.

Texas Pauses Re-Opening After Surge Of COVID-19 Cases DALLAS, TX - JUNE 27: Cars wait in line at a drive up COVID-19 testing site inside the American Airlines Center parking garage in Dallas on June 27, 2020. Dallas County and Parkland Hospital partnered to conduct about 550 tests per day at this location, where a patient reported waiting more than three hours for a test on June 27, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. Texas is facing a surge of new cases of COVID-19 after the state government allowed business to open prematurely. (Photo by Montinique Monroe/Getty Images/Getty Images)

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