Was Your State High, Low or Average in COVID 19 Deaths According to the State Population?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                           

 The world population will have reached 10 billion at the end of 2020.  At this moment it is at 7,729,708,307 and growing.  The Corona virus hasn't slowed it down very much.  We Jews make up 0.02% of the world population.  Israel, like many other countries, has been hit pretty hard by this deadly virus causing another shut down  of its population.  COVID 19 deaths worldwide are 1,160,681 or 1.15 million people.    

What % of our USA population has died from COVIS 19 so far?  How does this compare with other countries?  It's the % per population that tells us how we are doing more than the number of deaths itself.  The United States has 331,002,651 people.  This is 4.25% of the World population.  To date, 225,000 Americans have died from COVID 19.  We have a density of 94 people per square mile.  Our land 's size is 3,531,837 sq. mi.   82% of our people are urban people.  That means they live in cities.  The median age of our population is young, 38.3 years old.  Half of them have never heard of the word, Holocaust.  That doesn't say much for their schooling unless these are all small children.  

                                                     

     Burial of COVID 19 victims: Workers wearing personal protective equipment bury bodies in a trench on Hart Island in the Bronx, NY. 

New Jersey seems to have the highest deaths per capita with 16,285 out of a state with a population of 8,791,978 or 8.882 million. The median age is 39.8.  

I live in Oregon. Oregon's population is 4,283,747 or 4.28 million.  It's the USA's 9th largest state and lies on the West Coast.  We have a fantastic coastline with great beaches and mountains for skiing. Oregon has had 654 deaths from Covid.  The median age is 39.2.  

Oregon	42,101	362		10,874	654

Total cases, new cases  cases per 1 million people, and 654 deaths.  

Texas has had 18,042 deaths from COVID 19.  Their population is 29.90 million.  Their median age is 34.4.

New York City has had 23,967 deaths.  Their population is 18,804,000.  This city's population has seen a decline of 0.01% from 2019.  Their median age is 36.5.                                       

Health-care workers wheel the bodies of deceased people from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center during the coronavirus outbreak in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, on April 4, 2020. #

Andrew Kelly / Reuters

New York itself has had 33,059 deaths.  Her population is 19.4 million. This state has had a decline since 2015 when it was the most populated.  Obama was president then.   Their median age was 36.5 as of 2018. 

California has had  17,358 deaths out of a population of 39.96 million in January which has now shrunk to 39.78 million in July.  Their median age is 36.3.     

Washington has had  2,396 deaths out of a population of  7.6 million.  Their median age is 37.6. 

Vermont has the lowest amount of cases per capita.  They've only had 58 deaths out of a state with 623,989 people as of July's population.  Their median age is 42.9.  Vermont has only 9 incorporated cities, and only three of them have a population of more than 10,000.

"At least 337 new coronavirus deaths and 59,624 new cases were reported in the United States on Oct. 25. Over the past week, there have been an average of 69,804 cases per day, an increase of 32 %percent from the average two weeks earlier.

As of Monday morning, more than 8,702,500 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus and at least 225,100 have died, according to a New York Times database".  That would be 39% of those infected have died. 

The update on the virus now is  that in a one-week span, the US reports the highest number of cases since the pandemic began.  The states are struggling to contain the COVID spread.  Their environment has been one of containment since March and they are tired of it. It's been a stressful 8 months.   They have been breaking out and are now paying for their mistake.  

                                                      

We are living through unchartered waters.  No one wants to embrace this.  It's not life as usual; financially or enjoyment.  We must be grateful for what we are left with and the fact that we are alive to face it and deal with it.  No immediate press a button and make the nasty go away.  We just felt the thorns on the roses in our garden.  The flu we knew was nothing compared to this virus strain of COVID 19.  We were safe with a vaccination for a whole year.  Now we find that just the act of breathing by being alive is dangerous. 

                                                   
 We come from people who were daring and very brave.  Let's man-up and face the music.  Our goal is to find joy in the act of living no matter what the circumstance is.  We are adaptable.  Use masks.  

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