The 300 US counties with the highest death rates have an average poverty rate of 45%, Poor People’s Campaign report shows
A healthcare worker checks in a resident arriving to receive a Covid-19 test in Salt Lake City, Utah, the US, January 11 2022. Picture: GEORGE FREY/BLOOMBERG
The study, based on income and death data from over 3,200 US counties, shows an even bigger gap during the Delta variant that made up the US’s fourth coronavirus wave, when people living in the lowest income counties died at five times the rate of those in the highest income counties.
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