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The coronavirus is now responsible for a higher share of deaths from all causes for younger Americans and white Americans than it was before all adults were eligible for vaccines. Here’s why death rates are rising for some groups. nyti.ms/3mGzHjz

The overall rate of Covid-19 deaths has declined since vaccines became widely available in April. Yet nearly a quarter million people in the U.S. have died from the virus in the past eight months. nyti.ms/3mGzHjz

Nearly 90% of people 65 and older are fully vaccinated, and Covid-19 is now responsible for a smaller share of all deaths among them. But for those younger than 65, who have been vaccinated at lower rates, Covid has risen as a cause of death. nyti.ms/3mGzHjz

The death rate has risen particularly sharply for middle-aged white people. Covid-19 now accounts for a much larger share of all deaths for that group than it did before vaccines were widely available. nyti.ms/3mGzHjz

Where people are dying since vaccines has also changed. Death rates fell in most counties across the U.S., but in about one in 10 counties, death rates have more than doubled. nyti.ms/3mGzHjz

States with lower vaccination rates tend to have had higher Covid-19 death rates, particularly from the most recent wave of Delta variant infections, which hit the South the hardest. nyti.ms/3mGzHjz

This all suggests that the change in who is dying from Covid-19 may be tied to which areas experienced the worst outbreaks of the Delta variant and who in those areas remains unvaccinated.

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