Who is dying of Covid? People who are younger, white and Southern, according to latest numbers

[Jilly_in_VA]

Younger, Southern, rural and white.

Those are increasingly the kinds of people who are dying of Covid-19, as the demographics of those hit hardest by the coronavirus have shifted since the pandemic first hit the United States. The country’s most recent, devastating Covid wave, fueled by the highly contagious delta variant, showed the strength of the virus even in the face of mounting vaccinations, with more than 100,000 deaths reported in the past three months.

Many of those deaths were reported in places — and in populations — that had been largely spared the worst effects of the disease until now.

An NBC News analysis of what changed from the first 100,000 Covid deaths in the U.S. to the most recent 100,000 deaths shows key geographic and demographic shifts in the evolution of the pandemic. Covid hot spots moved from densely populated cities concentrated in the Northeast and on the West Coast to Southern states and more rural regions. The disease also shifted from disproportionately affecting older adults and people with underlying conditions into a more indiscriminate killer among those who were unvaccinated.

They are deaths that were largely preventable.

“This has become a disease of the unimmunized,” said Dr. James Conway, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and associate director for health sciences at the school’s Global Health Institute.

https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/new-faces-of-covid-deaths/index.html

[kimbutgar]

1. Less future Assolini voters.

[Sherman A1]

2. Agreed

[Cobalt Violet]

7. Exactly.

They defined "younger" as 55-74.

[former9thward]

14. 71 is the new 21

Didn't you know that?

[SoCalDavidS]

3. Good, Now What Are The Political Stats?

I want to know how many more repubs are dying than Democrats. The media does not focus enough on that statistic, and I'm curious as to how skewed it really is.

[DBoon]

6. I've heard it is 5:1

5 R to each Dem

No cite, but I believe this has been posted on DU in the last month or so.

[SoCalDavidS]

9. I'll Take It

May it continue indefinitely, as I don't see Covid EVER going away, thanks to those who will refuse the vaccine so long as they live.

[former9thward]

12. A lot of things are posted without any cites.

This analysis shows of the last 100,000 deaths 68.2% are minorities. So I doubt your "5 to 1" is correct. It is almost the reverse given standard voting patterns.

https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/new-faces-of-covid-deaths/index.html

[DBoon]

17. Here it is

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215807174



With the Snopes "true" evaluation https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neil-degrasse-tyson-vax-tweet/ :

Astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, “Startalk” podcast host and occasional Twitter “intergalactic troll” Neil deGrasse Tyson on Aug. 31, 2021, penned a tweet he later deleted because he said it was “causing too many unintended Twitter fights.”

The deleted tweet compared the rate of COVID-19 deaths among “(unvaccinated) Republican voters” to Democrats.

“Right now in the USA, every ten days, more than 8,000 (unvaccinated) Republican voters are dying of COVID-19. That’s 5X the rate for Democrats,” the tweet read. The post also contained a drawing of a book titled, “How to Die Like a Medieval Peasant In Spite of Modern Medicine.”

[former9thward]

18. And where did he get the evidence to back up that tweet?

That is why he deleted it. The numbers are in the link of the OP.

[DBoon]

20. The Snopes article contradicts both your points

1. "he later deleted because he said it was “causing too many unintended Twitter fights.” Has nothing to do with his facts or conclusions being incorrect.

2. The tweet predates the OP by a couple of months so it could not possible reference it. His information is from other public sources listing death rates from Covid by vaccinated/unvaccinated and vaccination rates by party reference.

[former9thward]

23. Let's see the cites to the "other public sources"

The information in the OP link is where they looked at the actual people behind the last 100,000 deaths. They determined their race, age, etc. Is their information correct or not?

[former9thward]

13. Read the link in the OP

Of the last 100k deaths 68.2% are minorities.

[lagomorph777]

4. Well, that's basically good news.

Would like to see it broken down by voting record.

[former9thward]

11. Look at the link.

68.2% of the last 100k deaths are minorities. What do you think their voting record is?

https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/new-faces-of-covid-deaths/index.html

[Best_man23]

5. If you visit the Herman Cain Award Subreddit

The profiles of the "Awarded" (people who died of Covid) are almost all MAGAt poster children. As stated in the NBC article, most are younger (in their 30s and 40s), live in rural areas of deep red states like Florida, Arkansas, Texas, and Missouri, are not educated, and are almost always white.

I forgot the name of the epidemiologist (wasn't Dr. Fauci) who said in late Spring that Covid would indeed become "a disease of the unimmunized" and that Dr's prediction has become reality.

If you're not familiar with Reddit's Herman Cain Award subreddit: https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100215759445

[cilla4progress]

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[former9thward]

10. The actual numbers are buried deep in the OP's link.

It says of the last 100,000 people who died 32.5% were Black. That is a far outsize share given blacks are around 9% of the population. It also says Hispanics make up 22.3% of the latest 100k deaths. That is well over their 12-14% share of the population.
It says non-Hispanic whites are 32.1% of the deaths, far lower than their 58% share of the population.

It also defines "young people" as anyone 54 or younger. Now 54 is young? Regardless they made up only 8.7% of the deaths of the last 100k.

https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/new-faces-of-covid-deaths/index.html

[Sympthsical]

16. The narrative and the statistics are very far apart

It's been a minute since I looked up the stats, but going through that article . . . if I had only read social media and political sites, I would've been absolutely convinced the average Covid death was some thirty or forty-something year old unvaccinated Trump yahoo.

Those stats are not that.

That headline just feels very misleading. If you just read the headline and don't look at the numbers, you'd be coming away with a much different idea than what the reality is.

[Sympthsical]

15. Only 32% of Covid deaths in the latest share are white people

So I am really not understanding that headline at all.

Yes, the share of deaths changed, but the fact non-white populations are still overwhelmingly bearing the brunt remains the same.

10% of Covid deaths are under 55 years old. Only 1.3% are under 35 years old.

This whole article and headline seem very weird to me.

There is a narrative - because it's ideologically useful - that it's mostly Republicans getting killed off by this now because they're pretty much the only ones not getting vaccinated.

Well, here's the data.

Does that look like mostly Republicans to anyone?

[genxlib]

19. This is a fascinating data analysis

I have been having a debate with a friend recently because he is on the "Florida has done great train".

Yeah that is a thing. Conservative columnists has been declaring victory because the fire went out after burning down the house.

I have been trying to explain to him that having a spike in death after you have the tools to combat the disease can in no way be considered a success. I had done some unofficial data analysis but this is far more interesting than what I had done.

It clearly shows that Florida is absolutely dead last in how much worse it is doing while New York is first. In fact, the worst 10 are red states and the best 10 are blue.

Thanks for posting.

[elias7]

21. In our ER in southern NH, we are seeing more Covid than ever

For a fairly steady time now, not only are our general numbers higher than pre-Covid (since June), but for the past couple of months, our “Covid-like symptoms” chief complaint has been remarkably high, perhaps 15-20% of all patients, although many cases do not actually prove to be Covid.

Most certainly, however, our sickest Covid patients -admissions and transfers - are invariably unvaxxed. The main vector right now are schoolchildren and daycare, with kids bringing covid home to the family.

[Carlitos Brigante]

22. K&R! nt

[FakeNoose]

24. It's the unvaccinated - they're the ones who are dying

This story must be told in plain words. Don't use fancy medical/scientific language.

Tell these people in words they will understand. Have a spokesperson that they'll listen to, maybe an athlete or a rock star, I don't know.

Grab their shoulders and shake them. Make them listen. It has nothing to do with freedom, nothing to do with Jesus.

In all honesty, it has nothing to do with Chump either.

If they care about their own lives, their parents, their children or families, they WILL get vaccinated.