Some different ways of looking at Covid deaths

The Atlantic posits a couple of interesting ways of looking at deaths from Covid. They go beyond the simple numbers – such as 3,000 deaths a day – to numbers which reflect the pain and heartbreak behind each individual death, which often doesn’t register with the reader. For example, “Consider, for instance, that during the month of December, an average of about 1.7 people in the U.S. died from COVID-19 every minute.”

Here are the ‘other’ ways they use: 

ON AVERAGE, EACH PERSON IN THE U.S. WHO HAS DIED FROM COVID-19 WAS DEPRIVED OF ABOUT 13 YEARS OF LIFE.
ABOUT ONE IN 800 BLACK AMERICANS HAS DIED FROM COVID-19, WHILE ONE IN 1,325 WHITE AMERICANS HAS.
ROUGHLY 3.1 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE LOST A CLOSE RELATIVE TO COVID-19.

The article discusses the research involved in reaching these conclusions. Read it here.