Covid's partisan pattern is growing more extreme.
Since Delta began circulating widely in the U.S., Covid has exacted a horrific death toll on red America: In counties where Donald Trump received at least 70 percent of the vote, the virus has killed about 47 out of every 100,000 people since the end of June, according to Charles Gaba, a health care analyst. In counties where Trump won less than 32 percent of the vote, the number is about 10 out of 100,000.
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With the death count rising, at least a few republicans appear to be worried about what their party and its allies have sown.
In an article this month for breitbart, the right-wing website formerly run by Steve Bannon, John Nolte argued that the partisan gap in vaccination rates was part of a liberal plot. liberals like Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Anthony Fauci and Howard Stern have tried so hard to persuade people to get vaccinated, because they know that republican voters will do the opposite of whatever they say, Nolte wrote.
His argument is certainly bizarre, given that democratic politicians have been imploring all americans to get vaccinated and many republican politicians have not. but nolte did offer a glimpse at a creeping political fear among some republicans. “right now, a countless number of trump supporters believe they are owning the left by refusing to take a lifesaving vaccine,” nolte wrote. “in a country where elections are decided on razor-thin margins, does it not benefit one side if their opponents simply drop dead?”
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