More than 370,000 Americans died of COVID-19 between October 2020 and April 2021 the geographic distinctions that characterized the earlier waves became much less pronounced.īy the spring and summer of 2021, the nationwide death rate had slowed significantly, and vaccines were widely available to all adults who wanted them. The fall and winter months of 2020 and early 2021 were the deadliest of the pandemic to date.
During the summer of 2020, the largest share of the roughly 80,000 deaths that occurred during the pandemic’s second wave were in the southern parts of the country. The first wave (roughly the first 125,000 deaths from March 2020 through June 2020) was largely geographically concentrated in the Northeast and in particular the New York City region. Today, the death toll of the pandemic looks very different from how it looked in the early part of 2020. Counties in the United States vary widely in their population sizes, so in many places in the essay, we divide counties into approximately equal-sized groups (in terms of their population) for comparability or report on population adjusted death rates rather than total counts of deaths. This analysis relies on county-level data. The New York Times collects data from many different local health agencies, and this likely leads to some additional measurement error. For example, most states report deaths based on the residency of the deceased person rather than the location where they died. There may also be variation across the states in the quality and types of data reported. There may be significant differences between the true number of deaths due to COVID-19 and the official reported counts of those deaths. The estimates provided in this report are subject to several sources of error. For this analysis, we relied on official reports of deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus collected and maintained by The New York Times. Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to understand how the geography of the coronavirus outbreak has changed over its course.
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