Thread by @charles_gaba

📣 NEW: If I understand the @NCHStats data correctly, White people have made up 70% of all U.S. COVID deaths since June (w/important caveats re. weighting):
acasignups.net/21/12/28/nchs-…

UPDATE: The weighting done by @NCHStats appears to be *age-adjusted* for each category. While I understand why they do that, I'm not sure it's relevant when it comes to political impact 1/

It may be true that White people are dying at a higher rate because they also tend to be older...but that doesn't change the fact that they're dying. If 10 80-yr old GOP voters die of COVID, you don't "adjust" that down to 6 fewer GOP votes just because they were old. 2/2

(Source for the chart above: cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr…)

STORY UPDATED to note @NCHStats' "age standardization" as well as to note today's @nytimes article which also kind of/sort of includes some of the same data (and no, neither they nor I knew of each other's work on the same data):
acasignups.net/21/12/28/nchs-…