Covid pandemic disproportionately affected younger Americans of color, says study

A funeral director organizes bodies at a funeral home in Queens, New York, on 22 April 2020. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Although older Americans had the highest number of deaths in the Covid-19 pandemic, younger Americans had the highest rates compared with the overall population – especially among people of color, according to a new study.

And in two groups – Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander and Native American or Alaska Native – working-age people (ages 25 to 64) had the greatest increase in mortality of any age group.