Related: Death rate due to coronavirus highest for black Alabamians
The infection also seems to be eliminating men at a greater rate than females, though ADPH didn’t have data on death characteristics by gender on Saturday. Since Thursday, ADPH reported almost 60 percent of virus victims in Alabama were males, 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.
