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19 Sep, 8 tweets, 3 min read

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🧵 THREAD: If I'm reading the @uscensusbureau's data correctly, White (alone) people now make up 61.2% of the total U.S. population. 1/

@CDCgov

According to @CDCgov data, assuming I'm reading it correctly, it looks like "Non-Hispanic Whites" also make up almost exactly 61.2% of all COVID deaths to date.

"But wait! I thought COVID was killing Black, Hispanic, etc. people at a disproportionately higher rate!" 2/

Well, that WAS true for most of the pandemic to date...but (again assuming I'm reading the CDC data correctly), it looks like that has changed over time.

From the beginning of 2020 up through Election Day, it looks like only 54.4% of all COVID deaths were among White people. 3/

However, from the Nov. 2020 election up through the end of June (roughly when Delta hit), it looks like that increased to 65.1% of COVID deaths... 4/

...and SINCE the end of June, it looks like this has further increased to around 67% of COVID deaths being among "Non-Hispanic White" people: 5/

(The dates don't match precisely because the CDC data is by week-ending)
When you add all 3 time periods up:
1/01/20 - 11/07/20: ~132.0K / ~242.7K
11/08/20 - 6/26/21: ~233.3K / ~358.4K
6/27/21 - 9/04/21: ~33.9K / ~50.6K

...you get ~399K / ~652K, or around 61.2% total.

If anyone more familiar w/the CDC data (or racial demographics in general) wants to correct me on any of this feel free...the CDC seems to categorize racial/ethnic groups differently from the Census Bureau, so I may be misinterpreting this data. /END

https://twitter.com/gottalaff/status/1439586015052660736

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https://twitter.com/gottalaff/status/1439586015052660736

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@uscensusbureau

THREAD:
Good grief. I do not envy the @uscensusbureau their task when it comes to categorizing people into different racial demographics. 1/

On the surface, it seems simple enough: They have 6 different racial (not ethnic) categories:

--White
--Black/AA
--Am. Indian/AK Native
--Asian
--Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
--Other

However, then we get into "2 or more races" and things get...complicated. 2/

--White + Black/AA
--White + Am. Indian/AK Native
(etc)
--Black + Am. Indian/AK Native
--Black + Asian
(etc)

...and they even go into 3+, 4+, 5+ and finally have a column for someone claiming to be *all 6*. 3/

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⚠️ Annnnnnnd there it is: COVID death rate by county since 6/30/21 by Trump 2020 vote, now including Florida, updated as of 9/15/21.

Note that besides Nebraska, this doesn’t include several thousand deaths whose county of residence is unknown. Also, some of Florida’s deaths to date still won’t show up for another couple of weeks.

FWIW, the death rate in the reddest bracket is 8.2x higher than in the bluest bracket. Of course, there's only a tiny number of people living in either of those, so it's probably more representative to look at the 5.5x ratio between the 80-90 & 10-20 brackets.

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