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Mounting US deaths reveal an outsize toll on people of color

In this undated photo provided by Charlton Rhee, Rhee, a nursing home administrator from New York, poses for a photo with his parents, Man Joon Rhee and Eulja Rhee. Charlton Rhee, whose parents came to the U.S. from South Korea, lost both of them to COVID-19 as the virus surged in New York City. A joint analysis by The Associated Press and The Marshall Project found that Asian Americans join Black and Hispanic Americans among the hardest-hit groups, with deaths in each group up at least 30% this year. (Courtesy of Charlton Rhee via AP)

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As many as 215,000 more people than usual died in the U.S. during the first seven months of 2020, suggesting that the number of lives lost to the coronavirus is significantly higher than the official toll.

And half the dead were people of color — Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans and Asian Americans.

That's according to an analysis of government data by The Associated Press and The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization.

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Mounting US deaths reveal an outsize toll on people of color

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