It would be interesting to see some personal stats on the
folks who died. Was their weight a lot higher than the
other patients? Were they substance abuse people? Was
alcohol a factor?
I’m not trying to denigrate anyone, but it would be of
interest to me to know if poor personal choices were a
large factor in all this.
It would allow others to contemplate their own choices,
and make some improvements if that were the case.
Of course it would look like officials were being
insensitive if these factors did have a high impact
on mortality, and then made public.
These numbers are also driven by urbanization. Black Michiganers are generally packed into big cities, where the threat of infection is worse.