> A majority of the Richmond-metro area's hospital beds are located in Richmond, COVID results are probably attributed to the locality of the reporting hospital not the locality of the patient's residence.

VDH accounts for this and puts in location corrections. If you live in Chesterfield, VDH will consider it a Chesterfield COVID case, even if you are in a hospital in Richmond. The COVID report sent to VDH (by a hospital) has your address on it, and they code it based on that. If a screw up happens, a correction is issued.

These corrections for similar situations were put into the VDH database Wednesday:

Galax (-1 case)
New Kent County (-1 case)
Northampton County (-1 case)
Covington (-1 case)
Bath County (-1 case)
James City County (-3 cases)
Lexington (-4 cases)
Norton (-7 cases)
Colonial Heights (-10 cases)
Radford (-11 cases)

data from VDH database

Edit: corrected a wrong word

Positive

Edit: Richmond County is 22.17 per 100,000.

It's just sort of odd it changed up in the last couple of weeks. On Wednesday, Richmond was #3 in the state for new COVID cases.

Chesterfield is running about half of what Richmond is producing, and Henrico was always there big time but seems to be taking a small break.

This data is only for the past week or so, but when I saw Richmond three times came in #2 in the state for new cases (population about 230,000), I was surprised. It was only beat by a county with a population of about 880,000 (Fairfax County), which just seemed weird.

Edit: left out some words