What that tells me is that the number of deaths by race is variable between different states. The narrative that more of X race die from Covid-19 just does not seem true.
Yes.
Disparities between % of deaths versus % of population, by race/ethnicity, varies by state.
And while sometimes the “black” % of deaths is greater than the “black” % of the population, that is also just as often true for “whites” at times - depending on the state.
In some states those disparities for one group are larger and in other states they are smaller or even reversed. But there is no one pattern across all states. With one ethnic group exception - the “Asian” category.
With the exceptions of only three states - Alaska, Hawaii and Nevada, the % of the deaths was less than the % of the population for the “Asian” category. It suggests to me that health conditions for Asians in the U.S. (more comorbidity factors) is least positive in Alaska, Hawaii and Nevada compared to all the other states,