In Mobile County, where 1,500 people have caught COVID-19 and 95 have died, county data suggests people over the age 65 and those with underlying health conditions are by far in the highest risk category.
The Mobile County Health Department released new figures Wednesday that shows out of the 95 people who have died, 78% were over the age of 65. A further 20% were between the age of 50 and 64. One person under the age of 50 has died.
Nearly every single person who has lost their life had underlying health conditions that contributed to their death, and half lived at a long term care facility.
While the data shows that most working people in Mobile will be largely unaffected, those who are most at risk still have an important part to play in the economy and without them it can create a void, said Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson at a press conference Wednesday afternoon.
“Maybe a decade ago, there were a lot of people retiring at 60 and 65 years old," he said. "A lot more of us are now working up to 70 years old. Because of that, we are gainfully employed, and that age group is very much in the mix of what goes in our community. With everyone who gets sick, it creates a void in the matrix of economic prosperity of our community.”
The new data also breaks down deaths by race and gender. In Mobile County, deaths broke evenly by gender, with 48 men and 47 women. But there was a disproportionate effect along racial lines, as half of those who died were black. Mobile County itself is only 36% black.
Mobile has emerged as one of the hardest hit counties in Alabama. No other county has recorded more cases or more deaths. Roughly one out of every five deaths across Alabama from coronavirus has occurred in Mobile.
However, in terms of ages and conditions of the deceased, it largely mirrors the state.
Slightly more than 95% of Alabama’s coronavirus deaths were people with underlying health conditions, health department data shows.
As of May 13, there were 449 COVID-19 deaths across the state, up from 428 the previous day. Diabetes and cardiovascular disease were among the largest underlying health conditions.
Just 20 of the state’s COVID-19 deaths had no underlying health conditions, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health’s most updated fatality demographic data.
The median age of the fatalities was 72; the range of victims’ ages were 50 to 92. Seventy-four percent of those who died was older than age 65.
Since Mobile County released the demographic data today, another Mobile County resident died, bringing the total to 96 deaths as of Wednesday afternoon.
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