Mississippi, the state with the highest Covid-19 fatality rate, has now become the first in the country to hit the morbid milestone of losing one in every 300 residents to the virus
Steven Dennis, Mississippi surpassed this milestone as its death toll rose to nearly 10,000.
With its population of less than three million, this amounts to a rate of 335 deaths per 100,000 residents, or one in every 298.5 dead from the virus, according toNo other state has a death rate as high as Mississippi’s, but New Jersey and Alabama are the closest contenders at 313 and 311 per 100,000 residents, respectively.
The rate is even higher in some of Mississippi’s hardest-hit counties, such as Neshoba, where one in every 141 residents died of Covid-19, and Clarke, where it’s one in every 165. New Jersey in September to become the state with the highest death rate in the pandemic. But it doesn’t just rank this highly within the U.S. If Mississippi were a country, it would have the third highest per capita death rate in the world, following only Peru and Bosnia and Herzegovina .
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