Eleven percent of African Americans said they were close to someone who has died from the virus or a respiratory illness, more than double the percentage of the overall population, at 5 percent, and nearly three times the percentage of white Americans, 4 percent.
Nonwhite respondents were also more likely than the general population — at 7 percent — to have a family member or close friend who has died of COVID-19.
While 8 percent of people in Atlanta said they knew someone who died of the disease and 4 percent of white Atlantans said the same, 14 percent of black Atlantans and 11 percent of nonwhite Atlantans said the same.
In Birmingham, Ala., only 6 percent of the population at large said they knew someone who died because of COVID-19, compared to 2 percent of white respondents and 15 percent of black respondents.
At the state level, 16 percent of black Louisianans know someone who has died of coronavirus, versus 6 percent of white Louisianans.
