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Almost twice as many Republicans than Democrats died of Covid, study says
The gap in death rates between the parties grew substantially after the vaccines were introduced
Graig Graziosi at The Independant
Thursday 17 November 2022
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/republicans-died-double-democrats-covid-b2227425.html
(Paywall. All I could get was two paragraphs)
"SNIP.......
Nearly twice as many Republicans died from Covid-19 than Democrats did, a new study has found.
Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the Covid-19 Pandemic, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, used death records and voter registration records to determine the political breakdown of those who died during the pandemic.
......SNIP"
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Tetrachloride
(7,847 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)That is all
machoneman
(4,007 posts)tanyev
(42,567 posts)DBoon
(22,367 posts)Here is the abstract:
Political affiliation has emerged as a potential risk factor for COVID-19, amid evidence that
Republican-leaning counties have had higher COVID-19 death rates than Democrat- leaning
counties and evidence of a link between political party affiliation and vaccination views. This
study constructs an individual-level dataset with political affiliation and excess death rates during
the COVID-19 pandemic via a linkage of 2017 voter registration in Ohio and Florida to mortality
data from 2018 to 2021. We estimate substantially higher excess death rates for registered
Republicans when compared to registered Democrats, with almost all of the difference
concentrated in the period after vaccines were widely available in our study states. Overall, the
excess death rate for Republicans was 5.4 percentage points (pp), or 76%, higher than the excess
death rate for Democrats. Post- vaccines, the excess death rate gap between Republicans and
Democrats widened from 1.6 pp (22% of the Democrat excess death rate) to 10.4 pp (153% of the
Democrat excess death rate). The gap in excess death rates between Republicans and Democrats
is concentrated in counties with low vaccination rates and only materializes after vaccines
became widely available.
mgardener
(1,817 posts)Just about to look it up.
I always try and read the original article when possible.
applegrove
(118,685 posts)2naSalit
(86,646 posts)Not.
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)...but in a statistically valid way.
I think many of us here assumed this was the case. This suggests it was not merely philosophical bias.
Initech
(100,080 posts)moonscape
(4,673 posts)applegrove
(118,685 posts)Kaleva
(36,309 posts)MI is one of 19 states where people don't register their party preference
IbogaProject
(2,816 posts)Biden areas are likely more compact and much higher populations.
Kaleva
(36,309 posts)rate doesn't translate to many more deaths. In my Trump loving county, there have been 44 Covid deaths in the past three years.
On the other hand, the vast majority of Trump voters in MI lived in counties classified as urban or mostly urban so it's quite possible a majority of the deaths in the counties Biden won were Trump voters. Trump got 75% of his vote in the state from counties classified as urban or mostly urban
aeromanKC
(3,324 posts)Kaleva
(36,309 posts)75% of the vote Trump got in MI in 2020 came from counties classified as urban or mostly urban.
303squadron
(545 posts)And the winners are all tied for the Darwin Award!
bringthePaine
(1,729 posts)myohmy2
(3,163 posts)...keep up the good work, pukes!
...God's waiting for you...
nilram
(2,888 posts)Gates is a monster
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)I wonder what they're stance is on new cancer vaccines?
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Historic NY
(37,451 posts)It's called thinning the herd, perhaps because they believe in every quack cure that comes down the pike. They don't want vaccines, I wonder how they will feel about the new cancer research and vaccines.
republianmushroom
(13,616 posts)how many Dem.s that died didn't get vac., if any, that was also their choice.
wishstar
(5,270 posts)NC Gov Cooper instituted and encouraged Covid mandates and masking while neighboring states with Repub governors did not and even tried to prohibit cities from imposing Covid mandates and masking. After much pressure, SC Gov McMaster finally relented and allowed some cities that wanted mask mandates to be able to institute mandates and those cities were undoubtedly more Democratic leaning.
erronis
(15,303 posts)Maybe they shouldn't even go see any doctors/hospitals. I know some are into "homeopathic/naturopathic" remedies. Ciao.
Of course they may be more dangerous disease vectors, but with luck they'll be 6 feet under very soon.
oldsoftie
(12,555 posts)Almost all unvaccinated.
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)perished. I do feel badly that they likely took good vaccinated people down with them. So long assholes.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)The GOP is killing its supporters
Link to tweet
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/12/covid-deaths-anti-vaccine-republican-voters/672575/
Breaking down the cost of vaccine hesitancy would be simple if we could draw a causal relationship between Republican leaders anti-vaccine messaging and the adoption of those ideas by Americans, and then from those ideas to deaths due to non-vaccination. Unfortunately, we dont have the data to do so. Individual vaccine skepticism cannot be traced back to a single source, and even if it could, we dont know exactly who is unvaccinated and what their political affiliations are.
What we do have is a patchwork of estimations and correlations that, taken together, paint a blurry but nevertheless grim picture of how Republican leaders spread the vaccine hesitancy that has killed so many people. We know that as of April 2022, about 318,000 people had died from COVID because they were unvaccinated, according to research from Brown University. And the close association between Republican vaccine hesitancy and higher death rates has been documented. One study estimated that by the fall of 2021, vaccine uptake accounted for 10 percent of the total difference between Republican and Democratic deaths. But that estimate has changedand even likely grownover time.
Partisanship affected outcomes in the pandemic even before we had vaccines. A recent study found that from October 2020 to February 2021, the death rate in Republican-leaning counties was up to three times higher than that of Democratic-leaning counties, likely because of differences in masking and social distancing. Even when vaccines came around, these differences continued, Mauricio Santillana, an epidemiology expert at Northeastern University and a co-author of the study, told me. Follow-up research published in The Lancet Regional HealthAmericas in October looked at deaths from April 2021 to March 2022 and found a 26 percent higher death rate in areas where voters leaned Republican. There are subsequent and very serious [partisan] patterns with the Delta and Omicron waves, some of which can be explained by vaccination, Bill Hanage, a co-author of the paper and an epidemiologist at Harvard, told me in an email......
One of the most compelling studies comes from researchers at Yale, who published their findings as a working paper in November. They link political party and excess-death ratethe percent increase in deaths above pre-COVID levelsamong those registered as either Democrats or Republicans, providing a more granular view. They chose to analyze data from Florida and Ohio from before and after vaccines were available. Looking at the period before the vaccines, researchers found a 1.6-percentage-point difference in excess-death rate among Republicans and Democrats, with a higher rate among Republicans. But after vaccines became available, that gap widened dramatically to 10.4 percentage points, again with a higher Republican excess-death rate. When we compare individuals who are of the same age, who live in the same county in the same month of the pandemic, there are differences correlated with your political-party affiliation that emerge after vaccines are available, Jacob Wallace, an assistant professor of public health at Yale who co-authored the paper, told me. Thats a statement we can confidently make based on the study and we couldnt before.......
Unfortunately, this trend shows no signs of breaking. The anti-science messaging that fuels such a divide is popular with Republican leaders because it plays so well with their constituents. Far-right crowds cheer for missed vaccine targets and jokes about executing scientific leaders. In an environment where partisanship trumps allincluding trying to save peoples livessuch messaging is both politically effective and morally abhorrent. The data, however imperfect, demand a reckoning with the consequences of such a strategy not only during the pandemic but over the past few decades, and in the years to come. But to acknowledge how many Republicans didnt have to die would mean giving credence to scientific and medical expertise. So long as America remains locked in a poisonous partisan battle in which science is wrongly dismissed as being associated with the left, the death toll will only rise.