Death rates fell in most counties across the country, and in about one in five counties, the death rate fell by more than half. Where people are dying of Covid-19 also has changed since vaccines became widely available. Younger people from all groups likewise have been vaccinated at lower rates, and children 5 and up have been eligible for vaccines only since early November. White people are now less likely than Asians and Hispanics to be vaccinated, though somewhat more likely than Black people, and their death rates have risen in all but the oldest age groups. shows that the vaccination gap has narrowed. In recent months, however, data from the C.D.C. White people were vaccinated at a higher rate than Black and Hispanic people in the early months of the vaccination campaign - in part because people of color faced more obstacles to vaccine access. Some of the shift could be attributed to the lagging vaccination rates among white people overall. Universal vaccine eligibility was April 19, the date when all adults in the United States were eligible for vaccination. Note: Only the four largest racial and ethnic groups are included. Source: Provisional weekly death data from the C.D.C. Now, people 65 and older have the highest vaccination rate, with nearly 90 percent of them fully vaccinated. Scientists are still hopeful that vaccines - and especially booster shots - will stave off Omicron’s worst effects.Ĭovid-19 has been particularly deadly for older people, but that group was also among the first to be eligible for vaccines. How the arrival of the highly transmissible Omicron variant will affect these trends remains to be seen, since the current data on deaths is reliable only through late November. Source: New York Times database of reports from state and local health agencies Note: Universal vaccine eligibility is the date when all adults in the United States were eligible for vaccination.Ĭovid accounted for 14 percent of all deaths in the United States from March 2020 until all adults became eligible for the vaccine in April, compared with 11 percent of deaths since then.Īnd while for much of the pandemic, older Americans and people of color were more likely to die from the virus, the demographics of those dying from Covid have shifted too, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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