While we have cumulative numbers that are more recent at the state level, this quarterly dataset is the one that allows us to look at how mortality patterns shift over time by race and ethnicity at the state level. Since last month's Color of Coronavirus, the CDC updated the state-by-state quarterly mortality dataset with data from the second quarter of 2022. In many states, white Americans now have highest crude COVID-19 death rates Our usual updates on the pandemic’s cumulative death toll are still included below. We are continuing that, this month looking more in depth at state-by-state data. Last month, we started including a new section featuring a one-time analysis that highlights a different way of looking at COVID mortality and race data. We highlight national trends in this report, but state-level data is also available in the graphics below and through our GitHub. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we have documented the race and ethnicity for 99% of these cumulative deaths in the United States. Our ongoing Color of Coronavirus project monitors how and where COVID-19 mortality is inequitably impacting certain communities - to guide policy and community responses. As always, we welcome your feedback and insights United States’ official COVID-19 death toll has now surpassed 1,060,000 deaths. Even as we regret that tracking COVID-19 deaths is still a relevant pursuit, we hope that you will find our work meaningful and helpful in addressing the pandemic and understanding its impacts. While not without some issues (especially a known undercounting of American Indian deaths, which we address below) this data set is even more comprehensive than was the case in our original reporting of these issues. Since that time the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics has developed a more robust system of tracking COVID-19 mortality, based on death certificates. That project was based on harvesting data from the COVID-19 statistics reported separately from each state. Editors note: This is a re-launched version of our original Color of Coronavirus project, which ran from April 2020 through March 2021.
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