[Wayne07]

Once you factored out the black death rate

This is not true, the death rate is slightly worse for black americans and Asians do slightly better, but overall the death rate is basically proportionate to population.

   Population  Covid Deaths
White:    60.1%       60.9%
Hispanic: 18.5%       18.6%
Black:    12.2%       14.6%
Asian:     5.6%        3.9%

If you factor out the disaster in New York and New Jersey early on, then the US looks pretty good.

[OttawaFreeper]

Thanks and I stand corrected from my original comment. It is also interesting to consider the NY/NJ disaster as perhaps the most important factor in analyzing US infection and death numbers.

[Yardstick]

I’m a little surprised by those numbers. For a while there — like maybe last summer timeframe — the COVID stats showed blacks and to a lesser degree hispanics being overrepresented. In fact it was shaping up as a media narrative that minorities were more affected. The big media players like NYT were running stories from that angle IIRC.