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My "White people make up 70% of U.S. COVID deaths since June" post has come under fire because I didn't weight the racial groups by age. U.S. seniors are massively overrepresented by White people, so if you weight it by age they drop to like 40%. 1/
My "White people make up 70% of U.S. COVID deaths since June" post has come under fire because I didn't weight the racial groups by age. U.S. seniors are massively overrepresented by White people, so if you weight it by age they drop to like 40%. 1/
I agree this is true, and I understand why it's important to weight by age/etc. when formulating public health policies and the like.
HOWEVER, I don't understand is why this changes the bottom line: That White people are dying of COVID at disproportionately high rate since June.
HOWEVER, I don't understand is why this changes the bottom line: That White people are dying of COVID at disproportionately high rate since June.
Let's take this to an absurd extreme: Let's say that 100% of White Americans were 80 yrs old, and 100% of every other racial group was 25 years old. If that were the situation, you'd expect something like 95% of COVID deaths to be among White people, right? 3/
