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Snorkeling Task. Use percents to discuss how people of color are being disproportionately affected by coronavirus.
Great resource: Covid Tracking
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The COVID Racial Data Tracker is a collaboration between the COVID Tracking Project and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. Together, we're gathering the most complete and up-to-date race and ethnicity data on COVID-19 in the United States.

Júlia Ledur / COVID Tracking Project

Nationwide, Black people have died at 1.4 times the rate of white people.

Deaths per 100,000 people by race or ethnicity through March 7, 2021

Notes ↓

These calculations are based on data from The Covid Racial Data Tracker and the U.S. Census Bureau. Race categories may overlap with Hispanic/Latinx ethnicity. Rates are not age-adjusted and some rates are underestimated due to lack of reporting of race and ethnicity categories for COVID-19 deaths.

We've lost at least 73,462 Black lives to COVID-19 to date. Black people account for 15% of COVID-19 deaths where race is known.

We've asked every state to report complete race and ethnicity data. Our Racial Data Dashboard has the latest.

States and territories reporting race and ethnicity data

Tracking inequity at the county level

State-level statistics tell part of the story, but many US states are also deeply segregated-meaning different counties in the same state can have vastly different breakdowns by race and ethnicity.

Race and ethnicity data for COVID cases isn't widely available at the county level, so we're using two numbers we do have: the latest infection and death rates for each county, from a New York Times dataset, paired with the largest racial or ethnic group in that county, based on the Census Bureau's 2019 ACS 5-Year estimates. The results are staggering.

Counties with the 20 highest infection rates

Largest racial or ethnic group

White alone

American Indian and Alaskan Native alone

Hispanic or Latino

0 10,000 20,000 Chattahoochee, GA Crowley, CO Bent, CO Trousdale, TN Dewey, SD Lincoln, AR Lake, TN Bon Homme, SD Norton, KS Dimmit, TX Bethel Census Area, AK Buena Vista, IA Luce, MI Buffalo, SD Dakota, NE Eddy, ND Alfalfa, OK Forest, PA Ellsworth, KS Big Horn, MT

This chart shows the 20 counties with the highest level of infections per capita, and the largest racial or ethnic group in that county. Non-Hispanic White people represent the largest racial group in most of these counties. This is in line with Census statistics, which show that more than 60 percent of Americans are White, non-Hispanic or Latino. Show chart data ↓

Counties with the 20 highest death rates

Largest racial or ethnic group

White alone

Black or African American alone

Hispanic or Latino

American Indian and Alaskan Native alone

0 200 400 Galax city, VA Hancock, GA Jerauld, SD Emporia city, VA McMullen, TX Gove, KS Gregory, SD Foard, TX Iron, WI Motley, TX Turner, SD Dickey, ND McKinley, NM Robertson, KY Hamlin, SD Buffalo, SD Glascock, GA Lamb, TX Candler, GA Maverick, TX

When we look at the 20 counties with the highest level of deaths per capita, we see a different story. In two of these 20 counties, Black people represent the largest racial group. Two of the top five counties with the highest death rates in the nation are all predominantly Black. Show chart data ↓

Learn more from media outlets across the country about how COVID-19 is impacting communities of color.

The COVID Tracking Project collects and publishes the most complete data about COVID-19 in the US.

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The COVID-19 pandemic isn't affecting all communities the same way. The COVID Racial Data Dashboard helps us track this inequity by publishing topline racial data compared with state demographic data.