Thread by @charles_gaba

White people make up ~60% of the U.S. population.

White people make up 70% of all U.S. COVID deaths since June.

White people make up 80% of all U.S. COVID deaths in December so far.
acasignups.net/21/12/28/nchs-…

Here's what U.S. COVID deaths have looked like broken out by racial/ethnic group for each month since March 2020 according to @NCHStats data.

The December bracket runs through 12/18.

The dotted lines show each group's portion of the total U.S. population.

NOTE: I discuss this in the blog post, but since several brought it up, I’ll reiterate it here as well: This is WITHOUT adjusting for the fact that White people also make up a disproportionate portion of senior citizens. When you adjust for age it drops significantly. 1/

Having said that, seniors are also FAR more likely to be fully vaccinated and (I presume) to wear masks, socially distance, etc. Adjusting for age helps explain WHY they’re dying at a higher rate but it doesn’t change the fact that they are, which was my only point.

As I noted previously: If, say, 100 elderly White voters and 50 young Black voters die in the same precinct, you don’t adjust the lost votes among the first group down to 60 to account for the fact that White people tend to live a lot longer. 100 of them still died.