As Greenville County continues to the lead the state daily in new confirmed cases of Coronavirus, a new federal reports says the upstate region is worst in the nation for it size.
The Post & Courier reports that a federal study released this week says the Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin metropolitan statistical area leads the nation among mid-sized regions for coronavirus infections.
Post & Courier reporter Anna Mitchell writes that the White House COVID-19 Task Force released its latest Community Profile Tuesday which measures case numbers, positive tests and infection trends to determine the hardest-hit areas for the pandemic nationally.
In that report the Greenville area is listed as the worst center of outbreak among areas with populations of 250,000 to 1 million. The area is comprised of Greenville, Anderson, Pickens and Laurens counties but does not include Spartanburg County.
