5. The COVID-19 mortality rate, per 100 000 population, Mississippi, March-July 2020.

	Death count	Population	Mortality rate	95% CI(a)	P-value(b)
(a)Confidence interval; (b)P-value from Z-test; (c)Estimated confidence interval based on the Poisson distribution; (d)Rate based on less than 20 events is unstable.
Total	1346	2 976 149	45.2	(42.8–47.6)
Gender
Male	641	1 442 292	44.4	(41.0–47.9)	0.7642
Female	694	1 533 857	45.2	(41.9–48.6)
Race
White	518	1 678 232	30.9	(28.2–33.5)	<0.0001
Black	643	1 113 643	57.7	(53.3–62.2)
Other	85	184 274	46.1	(36.8–57.0)(c)
Age (years)
<18	0	698 583	0	–	<0.0001
18–29	9	490 410	1.8(d)	(0.8–3.5)(c)
30–59	205	1 111 866	18.4	(15.9–21.0)
60–79	647	565 181	114.5	(105.7–123.3)
80+	485	110 109	440.5	(401.3–479.7)
Region
Metro	319	1 393 789	22.9	(20.4–25.4)	<0.0001
Non-metro	1027	1 582 360	64.9	(60.9–68.9)