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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

NorCo Covid-19 Death Toll Hits 30; McClure Suggests We Are Peaking

As it has been doing daily, Northampton County has continued to track Covid-19 related deaths occurring within the county's borders, based on information provided by Coroner Zach Lysek. As of today, the death toll is 30. Executive Lamont McClure suggests, as I have been doing for the past several days, that we are finally peaking. " We are very near the time when our infections are supposed to peak. This is not a time to be complacent."

Deaeh Details: The municipalities in which the 30 deceased lived are as follows: Forks Twp. (1); Lower Nazareth Twp. (2): Bangor Boro (1); Palmer Twp. (8); Upper Nazareth Twp. (4); Williams Twp. (1); Nazareth Boro (1); Bethlehem Twp (7); City of Bethlehem (1); Washington Twp (1); Phillipsburg, NJ (1); and Bronx, NY (1).

Their average age was 79.3.

Gender of the Deceased: 60% Female/40% Male

Race of the Deceased: 73% White, 16% African American, 3% Asian or Pacific Islander, 10% Hispanic.

Northampton County Graph located here.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Race of the Deceased: 73% White, 16% African American, 35 Asian or Pacific Islander, 10% Hispanic.

Dear Editor: those numbers do not add up to 100%. You may wish to edit to reflect the correct percentages. Thank you for your excellent local reporting, stay safe.

Bernie O'Hare said...

They don't the "35" in Asian should have been 3%. My mistake, and corrected.

Anonymous said...

So the average life expectancy in the US in 2019 was 78.87 years. Then the average age at death of a person with the virus in Northampton County of 79.3 was actually older than that!