States With the Highest Number of COVID-19 Cases

There have now been more than 1.5 million reported cases of the coronavirus in the United States, and approximately 100,000 Americans have died from the illness. No other nation has reached even 300,000 cases.

There have been 454.4 confirmed infections per 100,000 U.S. residents, though rates of COVID-19 cases per capita vary widely across the country. In some states, the number of confirmed cases per capita is around one-tenth the U.S figure. In some of the most affected states, the number of reported cases per capita is nearly four times that of the country as a whole.

Over the last month, it appears that some states have been much less successful in containing the virus than others. Midwestern states like Minnesota, Nebraska, and Kansas had among the fewest cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 residents in the country in late April, but now have more cases per capita than the majority of states.

24/7 Wall St. reviewed data on confirmed COVID-19 cases as reported by local and state government health agencies as of May 18, 2020, to determine the states with the highest number of cases per capita. We calculated the confirmed cases for every 100,000 people in each state using one-year population data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2018 American Community Survey.