Posted on 10/09/2022 6:21:05 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Lower vaccination rates among Republicans could explain the partisan gap, but some researchers say mask use and social distancing were bigger factors.
Covid deaths are unevenly distributed among Republicans and Democrats.
Average excess death rates in Florida and Ohio were 76% higher among Republicans than Democrats between March 2020 and December 2021, according to a working paper released last month by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Excess deaths refers to deaths above what would be anticipated based on historical trends.
A study in June published in Health Affairs similarly found that counties with a Republican majority had a greater share of Covid deaths through October 2021, relative to majority-Democratic counties.
But experts are still puzzling over why these differences exist. Are lower vaccination rates among Republicans responsible? Or did mask use and social distancing guidelines prevent more deaths in counties run by Democrats?
The Yale researchers behind the new working paper say vaccine hesitancy among Republicans may be the biggest culprit.
"In counties where a large share of the population is getting vaccinated, we see a much smaller gap between Republicans and Democrats," said Jacob Wallace, an author of that study and an assistant professor of health policy at the Yale School of Public Health.
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Just maybe the vax batches were prescribed differently to (R) then (D) ?
Just saying the day is here when that is possible with data harvesting.
It’s statistical slight-of-hand. If you died within two weeks after your vexxationation, you were automatically counted as undemocratated.
Maybe because Dems in majority Republican counties don’t march so much in lockstep with the hive? I can have theories, too.
“Democrats are more likely to die of AIDS, Monkeypox, drug overdoses, suicide, cardiac arrest, gunfire, and capital punishment. ”
All that does keep the Democrat population in check. To the list I would natural hazards, such as when entering the country by land.
Republicans live longer because they don’t generally do things to give themselves HIV, syphilis, monkeybutt, etc.
This is a completely phony “study.”
Their biggest donor is the NIH. Unbelievable!
“According to the NBER, they are funded by grants from government agencies, private foundations, by corporate and individual contributions, and by income from the NBER’s investment portfolio. The largest donators currently are the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Social Security Administration, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.[7] In 2015, NBER’s annual revenue was about $33 million.”
-—Wikipedia
Why FL and OH?
Why from March 2020 (pre-”vaccine”) to only December 2021?
The narrative would have it that Pubbies are anti-science and foolish risk-takers, and so, of course, the coof has snuffed out more Pubbies than Mocrats, proportionally speaking.
Total Bull Guano, but the story only needs a few hour half-life to serve its narrstive-advancing function.
#6. Because the article is written to make Republicans look like antiscience neanderthals. In other words, its more of the mainstream media’s usual slanted writing.
Would love to see that comparison myself.
Total fake news BS. The real evidence points to the masks doing nothing at all and if they do anything they make people get sick. The virus doesn’t care about ideology. The clot shot didn’t even work so people got it were not more immune and in fact it damaged their immune system the more of that garbage they put in their bodies.
Research? lol
I suppose this is why it has been the democrat politicians that keep getting covid over and over again.
This all fake BS put out organizations who get paid to put out fake crap.
pure horsecrap “study” that has been taken apart already.
It will shock everybody here to learn they used biased data, played games with how they counted, etc etc.
Like I’m sure they were checking before these people died are you a republican or a democrat? How would anyone know the political position of hospitalized patients with Covid? This is baloney.
BS
Older and heavier. Age and obesity are the strongest correlations to Covid deaths.
Winner winner chicken dinner
So it’s basically just like political polling.
Don't report percentages, they are useless. Give me the actual numbers. If there were 3 deaths in a county ( 1 dem, 2 rep), they would report deaths of rep were 100 % higher than dems, leaving people to believe it was catastrophic.
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