Thread by @charles_gaba

🧵 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/

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

PS possibly related:

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