**1 in 500 Americans have died from COVID-19: Grim Milestone Reached**

[hlthe2b]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2021/1-in-500-covid-deaths/?itid=hp-top-table-main

People older than 85 make up only 2 percent of the population, but a quarter of the total death toll. One in 35 people 85 or older died of covid, compared with 1 in 780 people age 40 to 64.


While covid’s death toll overwhelms the imagination, even more stunning is the deadly efficiency with which it has targeted Black, Latino, and American Indian and Alaska Native people in their 30s, 40s and 50s.

Death rates for younger groups, 40 to 64 years old, are much lower, but racial inequities grow larger.


In the younger working-age group, 18 to 39 years old, the racial differences are even greater, with covid killing Blacks and Hispanics more than three times as often as Whites, and Native Americans almost nine times as much.

There is a great graphic of ranked mortality rates per state, but unfortunately, I'm not able to link it. Check it out at the source link if you can. Without the actual rates, here are the states in order from worst (highest) mortality rate to lowest.



Rates in states and the District

One death in...


Mississippi

New Jersey

Louisiana

New York

Arizona

Massachusetts

Rhode Island

Alabama

Arkansas

Oklahoma

Connecticut

South Dakota

Florida

Georgia

Indiana

New Mexico

Pennsylvania

South Carolina

Michigan

Nevada

Illinois

North Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Iowa

Delaware

Kansas

Kentucky

Ohio

West Virginia

Missouri

Montana

California

Maryland

District of Columbia

Wyoming

Wisconsin

North Carolina

Virginia

Minnesota

Idaho

Colorado

Nebraska

New Hampshire

Washington

Oregon

Utah

Maine

Alaska

Hawaii

Vermont

[PortTack]

1. Count the gqp dying 5X faster than Dems in that statistic

[MontanaMama]

2. I saw an obit in the local paper today

of an unvaxxed 37 year old male who died of multiple organ failure due to Covid pneumonia. Horrible way to die. Get the shot.

[SheltieLover]

3. K&R!