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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Yeah, but if the oldsters hadn't gotten double-vaxxed, the rate would have been even higher! Like 120%!
Regards,
If that were so, it would actually favor the Republicans!
The Democrats on those lists are mostly over 110 years old!
Regards,
”after regression adjusting for year-month-by-age-bin-by-county differences””controlling for year-month-by-county-by-age-bin fixed effects. These controls adjust for differences in ex- cess death rates during COVID-19, in addition to the adjustments for death rates by age, party and location from the construct of excess death.”
“we find evidence that vaccination contributes to explaining differences in excess deaths by political party affiliation, even after controlling for location and age differences.”
amazing... That’s almost $7k per applicant.
Thanks. And I myself quoted, “These results adjust for county-by-age differences in excess deaths...”
The bad vaxx doses were sent to areas with higher Republican residents.
How about also looking at the impact on small business, school children, drug abuse, and suicides? Over the same period?
Covid deaths weren’t the only impact from this period of mass hsyteria.
“Covid death rates are higher among Republicans than Democrats...”
Maybe so,but that’s still no reason to be a democrat.
Utter BS!
Makes me wonder what the people willing to dummy up about the vaxx-related deaths of loved ones are getting on the sly.
Blacks have a higher vulnerability to RNA viruses, not just Covid-19, but Hepatitis C and HIV also.
Blacks are also significantly undervaccinated for Covid-19 compared to Whites, Hispanics and Asians.
Nationally, of the 36 states reporting vaccination rates by race, 64% of Whites were vaccinated, versus 59% of Blacks. That's actually much worse than -5.0%, expressed as a percentage of the percentage.
There is also an excellent correlation between a state's overall percent Black and Native American population, and Covid-19 mortality.
The correlation holds for the entire United States, not just 2 cherry-picked states that voted for Trump.
Voting Democrat is higher among dead Republicans and dwad Democrats.
lol...
Didn’t Mark Twain once say there are lies, damn lies, and statistics?
BS
“Average excess death rates in Florida and Ohio were 76% higher among Republicans than Democrats between March 2020 and December 2021”
Two states alone do not a national sample make.
And beides, yea, many more deaths in Florida, with all its retired folk and when the rates of death for Covid for the elderly are higher than for other ages.
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