Mississippi surpasses NJ as state with highest rate for COVID deaths

[struggle4progress]

Updated: 5:15 p.m. | Published: 5:14 p.m.

... Mississippi’s death rate from COVID-19 is 308 per 100,000 people, as of Sept. 17. New Jersey’s is 306. Louisiana and New York, respectively, have the next-highest rates, with 288 and 281 per 100,000 people ...

https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2021/09/mississippi-surpasses-nj-as-us-state-with-highest-rate-for-covid-deaths.html

[JustAnotherGen]

1. We have 8.8 million people

They had 2.9 million in 2009.

How terribly sad.

[jimfields33]

2. It's per 100,000. So the number of deaths are lower for Mississippi

But per 100,000, they are close to the same.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. Its still sad

Like - we are dense and smaller (land wise). They could have social distanced. The vast majority of our deaths took place pre Vaccine.

Murphy made every move he could to keep us alive.

[Polybius]

3. Why so high in NJ?

It's a reliably liberal state with a good governor.

[mainer]

4. Many deaths in NJ, NY were before vaccine

And before doctors had access to monoclonal antibodies.

[LeftInTX]

5. Crowds were the source of spread

[Klaralven]

6. Lots of the early deaths were seniors in nursing homes

Vendors and temporary help spreading Covid. Visitors were allowed. Seniors would visit day care centers. etc.

There were also a lot of family gathering, weddings, etc. that continued for a while in the beginning.

E.g. "Coronavirus Ravages 7 Members of a Single Family, Killing 4"

The matriarch of the large New Jersey family died Wednesday night without ever knowing that her two oldest children had died before her.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/nyregion/new-jersey-family-coronavirus.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-deaths-grace-fusco-family-new-jersey/

[JustAnotherGen]

8. Ditto Mainer

Murphy did everything he could to keep us alive pre-vaccine