Table 1.

Crude and age-adjusted racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality rates between the non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White populations (N = 35 states)

	Crude			Age-Adjusted
State	Black death rate	White death rate	Disparity ratio	Black death rate	White death rate	Disparity ratio	Racism index
Alabama	114.0	88.2	1.3	142.7	73.3	1.9	35.0
Arizona	62.4	66.5	0.9	95.9	44.1	2.2	27.4
Arkansas	80.6	86.0	0.9	110.2	69.9	1.6	34.3
California	60.9	39.5	1.5	66.7	27.6	2.4	53.1
Colorado	71.6	43.0	1.7	112.8	42.3	2.7	52.7
Connecticut	194.8	144.0	1.4	258.0	94.4	2.7	60.3
Florida	105.3	79.6	1.3	139.2	46.0	3.0	35.2
Georgia	90.8	73.3	1.2	137.5	66.1	2.1	34.9
Illinois	129.3	79.8	1.6	151.5	61.7	2.5	61.0
Indiana	119.1	81.9	1.5	176.3	72.8	2.4	41.9
Iowa	70.7	88.4	0.8	174.1	70.1	2.5	52.4
Kansas	88.6	58.2	1.5	125.1	47.1	2.7	48.5
Kentucky	67.1	48.5	1.4	93.7	45.3	2.1	25.6
Louisiana	167.0	105.5	1.6	219.3	92.2	2.4	41.1
Maryland	108.9	71.1	1.5	136.8	53.9	2.5	46.7
Massachusetts	149.3	141.5	1.1	215.9	104.7	2.1	51.5
Michigan	193.9	62.9	3.1	230.0	51.4	4.5	51.9
Minnesota	61.7	63.3	1.0	163.5	51.5	3.2	62.6
Mississippi	142.8	111.2	1.3	194.1	92.3	2.1	39.4
Missouri	95.8	71.1	1.3	126.6	59.6	2.1	39.3
Nebraska	59.7	62.5	1.0	106.4	51.9	2.1	58.2
Nevada	83.4	58.1	1.4	113.8	44.6	2.6	31.1
New Jersey	238.8	170.5	1.4	277.1	118.7	2.3	66.3
New York	288.4	145.3	2.0	308.8	94.4	3.3	58.5
North Carolina	43.7	27.0	1.6	54.7	22.5	2.4	38.6
Ohio	70.5	56.3	1.3	87.4	46.6	1.9	48.6
Oklahoma	47.3	60.9	0.8	66.6	48.5	1.4	37.3
Pennsylvania	135.3	80.4	1.7	168.2	57.0	3.0	53.2
Rhode Island	122.5	137.2	0.9	168.2	93.2	1.8	50.6
South Carolina	116.9	75.2	1.6	141.3	62.7	2.3	43.4
Tennessee	82.7	62.9	1.3	114.6	55.0	2.1	33.7
Texas	68.7	62.3	1.1	105.5	53.9	2.0	34.7
Virginia	68.5	47.0	1.5	84.5	40.0	2.1	42.8
Washington	25.7	32.1	0.8	44.1	27.6	1.6	33.0
Wisconsin	78.3	61.9	1.3	143.9	49.8	2.9	72.3
United States	108.9	69.0	1.6	149.3	55.1	2.7	------

The age-adjusted mortality rates were calculated using direct standardization to the 2019 US population