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Dec 11, 2020
Johnstown is geographically in the middle of the worst per capita outbreak of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania right now.
As of Friday, 13 counties had rates higher than 1,400 cases per 100,000 residents over the previous 14 days, according to spotlightpa.org. Eight of them were in a contiguous path going from Clarion to Fulton with Jefferson, Clearfield, Cambria, Blair, Somerset and Bedford counties in between.
Cambria was the third highest county in Pennsylvania with 2,070 per 100,000 during those days. Bedford and Somerset were fifth and sixth, respectively with 1,643 and 1,615. In comparison, the United States was seeing about 830 cases per 100,000 people over the same time period, per covid19.big-