THE COLOR OF CORONAVIRUS: COVID-19 DEATHS BY RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE U.S.

Our ongoing Color of Coronavirus project monitors how and where COVID-19 mortality is inequitably impacting certain communities—to guide policy and community responses to these disproportionate deaths. The coronavirus has claimed nearly 133,000 American lives through July 7, 2020. We know the race and ethnicity for 91% of these deaths.

Our latest update reveals continued wide disparities by race, most dramatically for Black and Indigenous Americans. New with this release, we have also adjusted the data for age, a common and important tool that health researchers use to compare diseases that affect age groups differently. The result? Even larger mortality disparities observed between Black, Indigenous, and other populations of color relative to Whites—with the greatest rise in mortality among Indigenous and Latino Americans (who are the youngest populations of all race groups).