Alabama has now seen 209 deaths from the novel coronavirus which has gripped the world for the last few months. What do we know about the people who have died?

The majority were senior citizens, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health. As of Saturday morning, 77.5 percent of victims were 65 years old or older. The virus also seems to continue to disproportionately affect black Alabamians - 45.1 percent of Alabama victims were black people, even though only only 27 percent of the state’s population is black.

The virus also seems to be killing men at a higher rate than women, though ADPH didn’t have data on death characteristics by gender on Saturday. As of Thursday, ADPH reported nearly 60 percent of virus victims in Alabama were men, while only 48.5 percent of the state population is male, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Data from Alabama Department of Public Health. | Graphic by Ramsey Archibald

Mobile County has the most deaths from the virus - 40 people have died there. Jefferson County, home of Birmingham and the most populous county in the state, is second with 33 deaths.

Twenty-two people in Lee County, home of Auburn University in East Alabama, have died of the virus. Two of Lee’s neighboring counties, Tallapoosa and Chambers, have 17 deaths apiece, and both have significantly lower populations than the other counties with the most deaths.

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