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 .
Reap what you sew.
If we look at deaths from all causes, MS had an increase in deaths of 21.5% in 2020 vs an annual average of 0.9% before ‘20. Even with the unprecedented growth in deaths last year, MS is seeing more growth on top of that in 2021.
so 0.3% of their population?
Congrats! 50th in education BUT first in preventable death! Fantastic
Tragic.
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