A by-the-numbers look at how Covid-19 has impacted the United States.
Native American communities were hit very hard by Covid, but were one of the groups who got vaccinated the quickest.Black, Indigenous and Hispanic people died at far higher rates than white peopledata, American Indian or Alaska Natives are more than two times as likely to die from Covid-19 than white people. For Black people, the risk of dying is 1.7 times that of white people and 1.8 times for Hispanic people.
, when Covid-19 claimed around 106,000 and 98,000 lives, respectively. This was followed by January 2022, when around 82,000 people died, the only other month where more than 80,000 people died.Besides the very beginning of the pandemic in 2020, fewer people died in June and July 2021 than did in any other month.
Large groups of people opposed Covid vaccinations, but states with low immunization rates saw deaths skyrocket during the delta and omicron waves.In February 2022, the risk of unvaccinated people over the age of 12 testing positive for Covid was more than three times greater than that for those vaccinated with at least two doses,In some states, people flocked to mass vaccination events.
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