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Due to higher death rates from COVID-19 and deaths at younger ages, Black Americans suffered a greater decline in life expectancy in 2020 than their White counterparts. Specifically, projected life expectancy declined by 0.73 years for White people but 2.26 years for Black people. [19] [20]
The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2] The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas. [3]
Black people are 13% of the U.S. population that has released COVID-19 mortality data, but they account for 25% of the deaths. South Carolina and Michigan had the largest gaps — 25 points — between the percentage of black people in the population and the percentage of COVID-19 victims who were black, Virginia and North Carolina had the ...
Even in a year with an overwhelming number of excess deaths, the mortality rate of Black Americans stands out.Nearly 200,000 people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19 this year, and data has shown ...
Last week, the United States hit one million “excess deaths” since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scholars and demographers The post Black Americans comprise highest percentage of 1 ...
Doug Lambrecht was among the first of the nearly 1 million Americans to die from COVID-19. His demographic profile — an older The post Nearly 1 million COVID-19 deaths: Unequal burden fell on ...
This is a list of notable people reported as having died either from coronavirus disease 2019 or post COVID-19 , as a result of infection by the virus SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic and post-COVID-19 pandemic.
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