Pro-Trump Counties Continue To Suffer Far Higher COVID Death Tolls

[appalachiablue]

- Marchers at a Trump rally in Huntington Beach, Calif., 2017.
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- NPR, May 19, 2022.

Even with widely available vaccines and newly effective treatments, residents of counties that went heavily for Donald Trump in the last presidential election are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than those that live in areas that went for President Biden. That's according to a newly-updated analysis from NPR, examining how partisanship and misinformation are shaping the pandemic.

1 million deaths: the story of two pandemics. Death rates from COVID-19 in Trump-voting counties remain far above heavily Biden counties since the beginning of 2021. (More in the Link below). The Delta and Omicron waves have hit heavily Trump-voting areas hardest. Early in the pandemic, deaths were heavily focused in urban areas which tend to heavily favor Biden.

NPR examined COVID deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which most Americans could find a vaccine if they wanted one. Those living in counties that voted 60% or higher for Trump in November 2020 had 2.26 times the death rate of those that went by the same margin for Biden. Counties with a higher share of Trump votes had even higher mortality rates.

The scale of the preventable loss of life is staggering. According to a recent analysis by Brown University, nearly 320,000 lives nationwide could have been saved if more people had chosen to get vaccinated. The Brown analysis also shows a partisan split in how those preventable deaths are distributed. States that went most heavily for Trump – including Wyoming and West Virginia – have among the highest rates of preventable deaths, while states that voted heavily for Biden – such as Massachusetts and Vermont – had among the lowest...

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1098543849/pro-trump-counties-continue-to-suffer-far-higher-covid-death-tolls

[onecaliberal]

1. One less vote for evil: flame away...

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Republicans killing off their own voters and their children.

Sad that this has and continues to happen. So unnecessary.

[in2herbs]

3. The question is: will they (the dead) still be eligible to vote? nt

[JustAnotherGen]

13. +1

We know Republican voters do this. Like - they'll kill their wife to cast HER vote.

[thomski64]

4. Well good

..let them drink bleach

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Sad people die from ignorance, but tiny advantage for 2022

Maybe 300-600 voters per district. Might - not just might, but might - deliver a very close race or two.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. And death certificates should be linked to voter rolls to remove the deceased

I think that's still haphazard in some states.

[viva la]

6. They'll blame Biden!

Trump-leaning counties have far lower vaccination rates than those that went for President Biden. NPR's analysis showed that the gap was 21 points, with 81% of adults vaccinated in heavily-Biden counties compared to 60% of adults in counties that went for Trump.



According to the CDC, vaccinated individuals are 10 times less likely to die from a COVID-19 infection than the unvaccinated.

[kimbutgar]

8. If you are dumb enough to to vote Republican and not get vaccinated you are responsible

For the consequences of your actions.

There is NO way they can blame their stupidity on President Biden

[Botany]

9. Chris Lavoie, "Hurry up and die."

Death fixes stupid.

[SWBTATTReg]

10. And the impact will be? I haven't really seen any voter number analysis of the impact that

COVID deaths would have on elections, if any, if the numbers are too small to really shift things one way or the other.

I suspect, that since a lot of these tRUMP voters live in rural areas, that rural areas will be negatively impacted, and voting patterns favoring tRUMP will shrink somewhat, since so many tRUMP voters are anti-vaccine, anti-any measures to reduce the impact of COVID. The cities will be for the most part, okay, other than all of the sick COVID patients flooding into urban areas since most medical care facilities are in urban areas.

[tanyev]

11. Marking to read later.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. Stupid games

Stupid prizes

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Fox News and TFG are killing their viewers and supporters

[PortTack]

15. Couldn't care less!

[MyMission]

16. Let's go Darwin!

I regret that news of their deaths brings me satisfaction, but it does.
I don't want to wish more death on them, but I find myself pleased with this news.

Heard the report on NPR, looked to see if there was a thread about it here. I had to comment.
I said something about this well over a year ago, just as they were reporting this trend, which has continued and is quite significant. I hope and expect there may be some surprising election results in our favor, due to their diminishing numbers. Less than 6 months to go till election day, but case numbers are on the rise, and we will certainly lose more tfg supporters during that time.

[Lucky Luciano]

17. I'm good with that. Let's accelerate the process.