Big Sky Times

The number of Covid-19 deaths in Montana based on death certificate data reported to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is 0 as of April 8, according to a CDC tabulation. 

The data on coronavirus fatalities received by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics lags behind other death counts from published sources because it can take several weeks for death certificates to be submitted to the agency, the CDC reports. Nationwide, provisional deaths number 3,307 as of April 8.

The provisional deaths in Montana rank the lowest among the jurisdictions listed in the CDC tally. Deaths from all causes in Montana numbered 1,780 through April 8, and its percent of expected deaths (the fatality number divided by the number of fatalities expected so far this year based on data from 2017 to 2019) is 85. 

Only New York City so far has a percentage exceeding 100.

The CDC’s data includes information on pneumonia deaths because such fatalities may be misclassified due to a lack of coronavirus testing. Deaths due to both Covid-19 and pneumonia are also recorded on the federal database.

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Provisional Coronavirus Deaths as of April 8

Rank	Jurisdiction of Occurrence	All Covid-19 Deaths	Deaths From All Causes	Percent of Expected Deaths	All Pneumonia Deaths	Deaths with Pneumonia and COVID-19
1	New York City	1,712	14,001	128	1,670	641
2	New York *	508	20,336	100	1,752	282
3	Washington	213	10,875	93	678	88
4	California	135	50,784	91	3,437	70
5	Michigan	82	17,639	90	919	34
6	Illinois	64	19,429	90	1,233	36
7	Louisiana	60	7,209	78	282	23
8	Florida	57	39,791	93	2,036	19
9	Massachusetts	55	11,194	91	797	26
10	Colorado	51	7,575	95	380	25
11	New Jersey	43	13,537	89	723	24
12	Pennsylvania	38	19,375	69	977	18
13	Georgia	35	13,781	82	636	20
14	Arizona	26	11,862	97	622	10
15	Maryland	23	9,484	93	572	10
15	Virginia	23	12,853	92	518	6
17	South Carolina	18	9,467	96	438	6
18	Mississippi	17	5,803	91	381	3
19	Wisconsin	16	9,979	94	434	4
20	Texas	15	35,928	88	2,064	3
21	Oregon	14	5,995	82	251	9
22	Minnesota	12	8,387	95	450	5
23	Oklahoma	11	6,321	77	399	3
24	Nevada	10	4,756	92	242	9
25	Missouri	9	10,888	83	538	6
26	Tennessee	8	13,548	91	798	6
27	Alabama	7	8,842	83	443	2
28	Idaho	6	2,636	92	119	4
28	Maine	6	2,839	96	201	4
30	Indiana	5	11,153	83	640	2
30	New Hampshire	5	2,385	95	121	3
32	Iowa	4	5,503	89	325	1
32	Kansas	4	4,846	89	261	2
34	Arkansas	3	5,939	92	306	2
34	Kentucky	3	7,149	73	458	1
36	South Dakota	2	1,426	86	81	0
36	Utah	2	3,604	96	183	0
38	Alaska	1	613	73	27	1
38	District of Columbia	1	1,030	85	67	0
38	North Dakota	1	1,256	89	89	0
38	Rhode Island	1	1,619	76	57	1
38	Vermont	1	1,072	92	49	1
43	Connecticut	0	0	0	0	0
43	Delaware	0	1,295	69	56	0
43	Hawaii	0	2,168	92	128	0
43	Montana	0	1,780	85	82	0
43	Nebraska	0	2,847	82	184	0
43	New Mexico	0	3,015	79	171	0
43	North Carolina	0	4,672	24	232	0
43	Ohio	0	18,245	73	770	0
43	West Virginia	0	2,855	62	153	0
43	Wyoming	0	803	89	45	0
	United States	3,307	490,389	85	28,475	1,410

Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

* not including New York City