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.
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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, nationally. We also adjust these mortality rates for od 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 more thanU. In the past four weeks, the death rate among Indigenous people has accelerated the fastest shown by a steeper slope in the 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.
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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. Compared to Whites, the latest U. A fuller discussion of our indirectly age-adjusted rates follows.
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Actual mortality rates expressed per. Age-adjusted mortality rates per; and. Total deaths experienced by each racial and ethnic group. Explore actual mortality rates and total deaths by race and ethnicity for any state or Washington, D. Examine the differences for one group at a time across all states with available data.
For more context about the shortcomings of some of the data, please read our note about Indigenous, Pacific Islander, Multiracial and Other Race Americans. While there are many features of the novel coronavirus that are still unclear, this we know with source The risk of dying from COVID rises sharply with advanced age. Fewer than 4 inAmericans under age 45 have died from the virus, according to data submitted to the CDC through Oct.
The COVID death rate for Americans age rises to 28 per ,; more than doubles for those age 65 per; and more than doubles again among those age perAmong Americans age 75 and older, the death toll is exceedingly high: people per , as shown below. A higher share of White Americans are in the older age brackets than any other group. To illustrate this, consider that the median age of non-Hispanic White Americans is 44 years, according to the latest Census Bureau data.
KEY FINDINGS (from data through Nov. 10):
The comparable figure for all populations of color is considerably lower—for Asians 37Blacks 34Pacific Islanders 33Indigenous 32 and especially Latinos 30half of whom have not yet reached their 30th birthday. Even within the same race groups, the age distribution varies—with retirement destination states such as Florida having a much higher share of older adults within their White population, for example. So, https://amazonia.fiocruz.br/scdp/blog/purpose-of-case-study-in-psychology/chapter-v-international-protection-of-human-rights.php remove the role of age differences from COVID mortality rates, we have also produced age-adjusted rates.]
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