Men and white Americans suffered disproportionately at various points during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite media and health officials emphasizing the impact of the pandemic on minorities.
Men died at a far higher rate from COVID-19 complications than women during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). White Americans had a higher death rate than black Americans during the final two months of 2021 as well as so far during October of 2022, according to a new analysis by The Washington Post.
Despite white death rates surpassing black death rates at certain points in the pandemic, health authorities continued to prioritize non-white patients in their COVID-19 response. During the time period at the end of 2021 when white Americans were dying more frequently than black Americans, states like Utah and Minnesota were granting access to life-saving drugs to non-white patients first.
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