Last week, Mississippi surpassed New Jersey as the state with the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 citizens, credited to August’s overwhelming strain on the state’s healthcare system due to the spread of the delta variant and low rate of vaccination.

Gov. Tate Reeves continuously skirted inquiries into his plan to address the death rate on Sept. 19, even referring to the dead as “lagging indicators,” meaning a signal that may confirm a pattern already in progress.

View our latest Data Dive detailing COVID-19 death rates across the United States in comparison with each state’s population to demonstrate the scale of the impact of the death rate on that particular citizenry:

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Data: Mississippi ranks first in the country for highest COVID-19 death rate

by Nigel Dent, Mississippi Today
September 25, 2021

<h1>Data: Mississippi ranks first in the country for highest COVID-19 death rate</h1> <p class="byline">by Nigel Dent, Mississippi Today <br />September 25, 2021</p> <br /> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://mississippitoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/data-dive-FINAL-logo-04-1-2-1200x302.png" alt="" class="wp-image-1015395" /></figure> <p>Last week, <a href="https://mississippitoday.org/2021/09/16/mississippi-leads-the-nation-in-covid-19-deaths-per-capita-and-use-of-monoclonal-antibody-treatments/">Mississippi surpassed New Jersey</a> as the state with the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 citizens, credited to <a href="https://mississippitoday.org/2021/09/07/covid-mississippi-august-darkest-month/">August's overwhelming strain</a> on the state's healthcare system due to the spread of the delta variant and low rate of vaccination.</p> <p>Gov. Tate Reeves continuously skirted inquiries into his plan to address the death rate on Sept. 19, even referring to the dead as <a href="https://mississippitoday.org/2021/09/22/tate-reeves-cnn-interview-jake-tapper/">"lagging indicators</a>," meaning a signal that may confirm a pattern already in progress.</p> <p>View our latest Data Dive detailing COVID-19 death rates across the United States in comparison with each state's population to demonstrate the scale of the impact of the death rate on that particular citizenry:</p> <p>!function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var a in e.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r&lt;t.length;r++){if(t[r].contentWindow===e.source)t[r].style.height=e.data[&quot;datawrapper-height&quot;][a]+&quot;px&quot;}}}))}();</p> <p><strong>READ MORE:</strong></p> <p>• <a href="https://mississippitoday.org/coronavirus-in-mississippi/">View all our COVID-19 in Mississippi data and resources</a>. </p> <p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://mississippitoday.org/2021/09/25/data-mississippi-ranks-first-in-the-country-for-highest-covid-19-death-rate/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://mississippitoday.org">Mississippi Today</a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img src="https://i0.wp.com/mississippitoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MT_square-thumb.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://mississippitoday.org/?republication-pixel=true&post=1015379" style="width:1px;height:1px;"></p> Copy to Clipboard

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