Hidden figures: In New Jersey and Mississippi, the COVID death rate is higher than Brazil

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Hidden figures: In New Jersey and Mississippi, the COVID death rate is higher than Brazil
What unites a blue state with unionized labor and the deep-red cradle of the Confederacy? Racial inequality

By BOB HENNELLY
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 4, 2021 5:40AM


(Salon) New Jersey recently lost the dubious distinction of having the highest per-capita COVID death rate in the nation to Mississippi, whose extraordinarily low vaccination rate and lack of a mask mandate have helped fuel the spread of the delta variant.

Mississippi, now closing in on 10,000 virus deaths, is registering 315 COVID deaths per 100,000 residents. New Jersey is approaching 28,000 fatalities, or 306 per 100,000, a rate that is largely a consequence of the first several months of the pandemic, before we had a vaccine.

To get a sense of just how abysmal these numbers are, consider that our two states — a blue unionized labor state that fancies itself progressive, and a red state that was the cradle of the Confederacy — are both global standouts. In both cases, the legacy of generations of systemic racism and lack of access to regular health care has meant that people of color were the most vulnerable to COVID.

According to Johns Hopkins, that puts both states well above Brazil, the world's hardest-hit nation, at 281.29 deaths per 100,000, followed by Argentina, which reports 255.52 per 100,000. The United States as a whole ranks fourth on the planet at 209.32 deaths per 100,000, only slightly below the rate of Mexico, at 215.33.

In contrasting the latest statistics from Mississippi and New Jersey you see the arc of the tragic American COVID experience, which was entirely avoidable. Our blind partisanship has short-circuited the ability of the states to learn from each other as the overall death toll from COVID blows past the 675,000 lost during the 1918-21 Spanish flu pandemic. ..............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2021/10/04/hidden-figures-in-new-jersey-and-mississippi-the-rate-is-higher-than-brazil_partner/

[IbogaProject]

1. Lots of MAGA in NJ

NJ had the most support for Natzi Germany before WW2. There is a strong pro trump faction in every Northeastern City's peripheries. Plus NJ & NY were ground zero for the first wave and are still having problems in the Redder areas recently.

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2. That's true..

About the Nazi support pre-WWII.

I suspect my own father (b.1917) was a sympathizer..