COVID-19 Deaths Spiking: Bible Belt Could See Most Deaths Per Capita

COVID-19 death chart

Coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths per day compared to all causes US 2020
Published by John Elflein, Aug 7, 2020

As of August 6th, 2020, the average daily death toll due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the U.S. was around 936 since the occurrence of the first case on February 15th. Based on data from 2019, almost eight thousand people die every day in the United States from all causes, on average.

If this chart is true more than .64% of people who get COVID 19 will die. If everyone in the US gets infected 2,205,000 of them will die. This doesn't factor in individuals in regions of the country, specifically the Bible Belt that is known for it higher rates of smoking, heart disease, diabetes, poor diet, sloth and other co-morbid features of obesity. An educated guess suggests that the percentage of deaths for all age groups in the deep South could exceed 1%. 

Preliminary maximum estimates tell us that during the 2019-2020 (October to April) influenza season, around 332 people died daily on average from influenza. Taking the latest numbers into account, it seems that since mid-February on average one out of eight deaths in the United States every day have involved COVID-19.

On August sixth 1203 Americans died of COVID-19. As of August 8th 1:44 pm 1,455 Americans have died of COVID-19. 

United States cases

Updated Aug 8 at 1:44 PM local

Confirmed

5,043,233

+64,592

Deaths

163,416

+1,455

Recovered

2,475,248

+25,599