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Our ongoing Color of Coronavirus project monitors how and where COVID mortality is inequitably impacting certain communities—to guide policy and community responses to these disproportionate deaths. The coronavirus has claimed more thanAmerican lives through Nov. Our latest update reveals that Black and Indigenous Americans continue to suffer the greatest loss of life—with both groups now experiencing a COVID death toll exceeding 1 in 1, source.

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We also adjust these mortality rates for differences in the age distribution of populations, a common and important tool that health researchers use to compare diseases that affect age groups differently. Learn more about how. The result is the most robust and up-to-date portrait of COVID mortality by race available anywhere, with a lens on inequitable deaths. Of the Latijo thanU.

In the past four weeks, the death rate among Indigenous people has accelerated the fastest shown by a steeper slope in Amwrica graph above. Black Americans continue to experience the highest actual COVID mortality rates nationwide—about two or more times as high as the rate for Whites and Asians, who have the lowest actual rates.

Adjusting the data for age differences in race groups widens the gap in the overall mortality rates between all other groups and Whites, who have the lowest rate. It also reveals that Indigenous people have suffered the greatest losses, accounting for age differences, followed closely by Blacks and Latinos.

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Compared to Whites, the latest U. A fuller discussion of our indirectly age-adjusted rates follows. Actual mortality rates expressed per. Age-adjusted mortality rates per; and.]