Remarkable data from the CDC. The CDC considers the flu to be at pandemic levels when the percentage of flu deaths to total deaths generally in the range of 5.5% to 7.5% depending on the month. Not surpisingly given what we know, the percentage of deaths with COVID-19 to total deaths among those younger than 25 is well under the flu pandemic level.
But COVID-19 is also well below pandemic level for the population of white people age 25 to 64, and barely at the flu pandemic level for those 65 and over.
Contrast this to the black and hispanic communities where deaths with COVID-19 as a percentage of total deaths for those age 25 and above is very high.
This is not surprising. Everything we see shows that COVID-19 is really only a threat to the sick and elderly and those without access to quality healthcare. We've see that the nursing home policies of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusettes, Michigan and Pennyslvania were devastating to the nursing home population in those states, and that half of all COVID-19 deaths were of sick and/or elderly individuals in nursing homes.
Other areas that have had signficant fatalies include Louisiana--where there is a significant population of elderly who rely on a struggling Louisiana Medicaid program; Washington DC, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Baltimore, and Mississippi--where there is a significant poor and elderly African-America population; and in the Border Counties in Arizona, Texas, and California--where there is a significant poor Hispanic/Latino immigrant population.
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