evidence: More than 1 million people, or 1 in every 331 Americans, have died of COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The virus has not been equally fatal for all Americans. Black people, Native Americans and white people hold a higher percentage of COVID-19 deaths than their share of the US population. Americans 65 and older were more than 80% of all deaths from the virus in the first year of the pandemic. And while the Northeast and Midwest were hit hard by COVID-19 in 2020, deaths from the virus were more evenly distributed around the country since then. [...] One reason for the racial and ethnic differences may be that older Americans — who tend to be more white than the population overall — make up the majority of COVID-19 deaths. In 2020, more than 80% of COVID-19 deaths were from those 65 or older. Since then, the share of deaths among older Americans fell to 75%.