Thread by @APMResearch

*NEW (PAINFUL) #COVID19 MORTALITY DATA BY RACE FOR 50 STATES & DC.*

• 1 in 1,500 Black
• 1 in 2,300 Indigenous
• 1 in 3,100 Pac. Islander
• 1 in 3,200 Latino
• 1 in 3,600 White &
• 1 in 3,700 Asian
…Americans has died (through 6/23).

More: apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-b…

Our latest COLOR OF CORONAVIRUS update shows Pacific Islanders in their own category in places where that data is available. It also includes improved data for #Utah & #Wyoming, which have begun publicly reporting racial detail for their COVID-19 deaths. apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-b…

Here's an update to the one sentence that perhaps best characterizes the heartbreak of racial inequity in the era of #COVID19.

Explore all the data (now updated through 6/23) here: apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-b…

#healthequity

American lives lost to #COVID19, by race/ethnicity, through June 23, via our COLOR OF CORONAVIRUS project:

-Indigenous: 774*
-Asian: 5,000
-Black: 26,747
-Latino: 18,568
-White: 57,933
-Pac. Islander: 99*
-Other: 4,634
-Unknown: 7,937

[*Undercount]

apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-b…

New: Explore the (limited) #COVID19 mortality data available for Pacific Islanders in our COLOR OF CORONAVIRUS project: apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-b…

Utah & Arkansas seeing disproportionately high deaths among Pacific Islander residents.

#medtwitter #healthequity @aaja @PublicHealth

NEW #COVID19 DATA: Relative to White mortality rates, Black rates are dramatically higher in DC (6X), Kansas (5X), Wisconsin (5X), Missouri (4X) & Michigan (4X--shown below). Black mortality also 3X as high as Whites' in AR, IL, NY, SC & TN.
apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-b…
@freep @WUOM

Our COLOR OF CORONAVIRUS work on inequitable #COVID19 mortality is cited in this piece by @EverydayHealth:

everydayhealth.com/infectious-dis…

Read our full report here: [apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-b…]

#Nevada has the largest gap between the % of #COVID19 deaths among its Asian residents & their % of the population. 5,000 Asian Americans are known to have died from #coronavirus through 6/23.

Learn more & examine data for all races and states here: apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-b…
@aaja