ARIZONA #2 for Worst COVID-19 Death Rates in America | Robert Hart, writing today in Forbes

Intro: Across the country, there have been 299 deaths from Covid-19 per 100,000 people since the pandemic began through mid-April 2022, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. In Mississippi and Arizona, the only two states to exceed 400 deaths per 100,000 people, there were 418 and 411 Covid-19 deaths per 100,000 people.

In Hawaii and Vermont, death rates were around a third the national average at 100 and 102 deaths per 100,000 people, respectively.

These ten states have the worst Covid-19 death rates

1. Mississippi
2. Arizona
3. Oklahoma
4. Alabama
5. Tennessee
6. West Virginia
7. Arkansas
8. New Jersey
9. Louisiana
10. Michigan

Here Is What One Million Covid Deaths In The U.S. Looks Like

Robert Hart Forbes Staff

Forbes | 2022-05-10

"According to official estimates from the CDC, Johns Hopkins University and other organizations that collect public health data, the United States is nearing the grim milestone of one million deaths from Covid-19.

Since February 2020, Covid-19 has been listed as the underlying cause of death on at least 90% of these death certificates, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This means the disease “initiated the train of events leading directly to death.” For the remainder, Covid-19 contributed to death but was not the underlying cause.

Covid-19 is now the third-leading cause of death in the U.S.

For two years running, Covid-19 has killed more Americans than almost anything else. Around 462,000 Americans died from the disease in 2021 and 386,000 did in 2020, according to the CDC, accounting for 13.3% and 10.4% of all deaths, respectively. Only heart disease and cancer—sweeping terms that cover many distinct diseases—killed more. More than 150,000 people have already died from Covid-19 in 2022, a figure that would easily rank it among the top 10 leading causes of death in recent years. . .

More than 150,000 people have already died from Covid-19 in 2022

Covid-19 has proven far more deadly than the flu, or HIV, or two world wars

Despite frequent comparisons to the flu in order to downplay the threat of the pandemic—including many by former President Donald Trump—Covid-19 has already killed nearly three times more people in a little over two years than flu does in a decade. According to the CDC, seasonal influenza killed roughly 360,000 people in the U.S. between 2010 and 2020. Covid-19 has killed more Americans than HIV has in the last four decades and nearly twice the number killed in both world wars. Covid-19 is not far from having killed as many Americans as every U.S. war between 1775 and 1991—nearly 1.2 million people—according to data from the Department of Veterans Affairs. . .

> One million is likely an underestimate of Covid’s true death toll

> Covid-19 has been deadlier in Republican states

> The U.S. has 4% of the world’s population but recorded 16% of Covid-19 deaths

> The U.S. has a far higher Covid-19 death rate than other wealthy countries

Covid-19 came in waves

The U.S. has endured several waves of Covid-19, though different regions experienced very different pandemics. Broadly, the number of deaths peaked in mid-2020 during the initial outbreak, in the winter of 2020-21, during a delta-driven wave during the fall of 2021 and the winter of 2021-22 as the omicron variant spread. . .

We are in one of the least deadly stages of the pandemic so far

Besides the very beginning of the pandemic in 2020, fewer people died in June and July 2021 than did in any other month. Roughly 8,000 people died in June 2021 and 11,000 in July 2021, though deaths later surged throughout August and September, which were the fifth- and seventh-deadliest months of the pandemic. The number of deaths plummeted to around 13,000 in March 2022, down from nearly 48,000 in February, one of the deadliest months. Data for April 2022 is not complete and subject to change, though records indicate slightly fewer people may have died than during the previous month. . .

Death rates plummeted in highly vaccinated states

Before vaccines were widely available—a date Forbes crudely marked as June 1, 2021—New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island respectively had the three worst per capita death rates of any state. The trio embraced vaccination and now report some of the highest percentages of their population as fully vaccinated, respectively ranking first, seventh and ninth, according to data collated by the New York Times. In the time since the vaccine rollout, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island have reported some of the lowest death rates in the country, according to data provided by Johns Hopkins University and analyzed by Forbes. For that period, they respectively had the ninth, sixth and seventh lowest death rate per capita. Connecticut, the fourth most vaccinated state, experienced a similar transformation, reporting the sixth worst per capita death rate before the rollout and the fourth best afterwards.

Before the vaccine rollout, these ten states had the worst Covid-19 death rates

1. New Jersey
2. New York
3. Rhode Island
4. Mississippi
5. Arizona
6. Connecticut
7. Louisiana
8. Alabama
9. South Dakota
10. Pennsylvania

After the rollout, these ten states reported the lowest Covid-19 death rates

1. Vermont
2. Hawaii
3. California
4. Connecticut
5. Utah
6. New York
7. Rhode Island
8. Maryland
9. New Jersey
10. New Hampshire

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