The top line shows that the death rate in the state that three Republican party presidential contenders: Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and Francis Suarez live in. The bottom line shows the death rate for the state Donald Trump has left to move to the state with the top line. A ranking of all 50 states from lowest to highest death rate displayed above gives some more meaning to the relative positions of the next to last dot showing the 2019 death rates. New York is forth from the top at 333 deaths per 100,000, California is 12th at 367, Texas its 31st at 435 and Florida is 43rd at 533. To make comparison easier I convert the rates to percent of the state with the lowest death rate, Utah at 298. New York is 12 percent higher, California is 23 percent higher, Texas is 46 percent higher and Florida’s is 79 percent higher. Or said another way, for every 100 deaths that non-Hispanic whites aged 25-64 Utah produced in the last year before COVID hit, the same number of the same people in New York had 112, in California 123, in Texas 146, and in Florida 179. Does saying West Virginia has 229 make people in Florida feel better?
This is just a hint of what “states’s rights” combined with private health insurance and capitalist health care can do.
If you would like to see something else mortality data wise, just let me know I will see if I can produce it. if it is something you would rater now share with the group, my email is in the title to the graph.
