COVID-19 death rates are significantly higher among Black American women than among white men, according to a new study, suggesting that race is a factor in survival differences between men and women. Researchers analyzed COVID death rates in Michigan and Georgia, the only states reporting data by age, race and sex…. The analysis by Harvard's GenderSci Lab found that COVID death rates among Black women are nearly four times higher than those for white men; three times higher than for Asian men; and also higher than for white and Asian women. COVID death rates among Black men are far higher than for any other sex and racial group -- including more than six times higher than for white men.