Some Really Depressing Covid-19 Death Data

If they had died at the same rate as White Americans, at least 14,000 Black Americans would still be alive

Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog
1 min readJun 11, 2020

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The APM Research Lab released new data on the mortality rates from Covid-19, separated out by race. What they found is really discouraging. Here’s the breakdown of Americans that have died from the coronavirus since the pandemic began:

  • 1 in 1,625 Black Americans has died
  • 1 in 2,775 Indigenous Americans has died

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Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Health and science journalist. Former editor of Medium’s Covid-19 Blog and deputy editor at Elemental. TIME Magazine writer before that