Big blue counties: "in the densely populated areas in which we’ve approached overwhelming adoption of the vaccines, the death rates are often a fraction of the national average — a significantly greater gap than between the most-vaccinated and least-vaccinated states." https://t.co/U49BtXEZ7Y

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) December 6, 2021

"Covid gets redder:" @DLeonhardt writes that "Covid is still a national crisis, but the worst forms of it are increasingly concentrated in red America." Here's the data: https://t.co/bhvpuH6piI pic.twitter.com/CiwPQ2fERE

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 27, 2021

Parts of Trump’s own voting base view him more skeptically now because of his support for the vaccine, and that skepticism has furthered him talking about “freedom” from mandates. https://t.co/QBTwsEXqpa

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 27, 2021

Another way of looking at how deaths from the coronavirus are centered in places that Trump disproportionately won last year. https://t.co/rF6QyvqK0x pic.twitter.com/u60H0VOixz

— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 21, 2021

One of the strongest signs that the vaccines are working and that regional differences aren't just seasonality is a look at differences *within* states.

Within a given state, counties with higher vaccination rates do tend to have lower COVID rates.https://t.co/ysPGxxGSC4 pic.twitter.com/fGFgl7VncZ

— Ryan Matsumoto (@ryanmatsumoto1) September 26, 2021

*INSANE* that despite 3 free, effective vaccines, states are rocketing past NEW YORK's COVID death toll per capita

NY has now dropped to 5th deadliest — behind MS, NJ, LA, AL — despite getting hit hard before testing/ treatments/vaccines

Via NYT stats https://t.co/fuUYJn1W7k

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) September 25, 2021

The pandemic’s not over, but this graph of New York deaths makes me think this jam-packed city of 8.8 million people learned the lessons and adapted well. https://t.co/t3r4CFc5kp pic.twitter.com/EkAFqXpxxX

— Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) September 25, 2021

The average rate of Covid-19 deaths in the 10 least vaccinated states was more than four times higher over the past week than the rate in the 10 most vaccinated states, according to a CNN analysis https://t.co/nVyQnHCegn

— CNN (@CNN) September 22, 2021

As the US covid death toll reaches 676,000, it surpasses the 1918-19 influenza. As a proportion of population, it's still not as big but in terms of raw lives lost and families shattered, covid has become the deadliest pandemic in US history. https://t.co/N7GS81zEdc

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) September 21, 2021

Two-thirds of those who've died of covid have died since election day, with those deaths correlated to how counties voted. https://t.co/zhw4Sq7ZXu

— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 27, 2021

Analysis: Red America has seen the highest rates of cases and deaths and the lowest rate of vaccinations https://t.co/xfbagUL4dI

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 30, 2021

There were no COVID-related deaths yesterday in New York City, where the vaccination rate is over 90%.

— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) November 30, 2021

Check out this chart and recall back when people were saying urban areas where uniquely vulnerable to Covid https://t.co/O7HObhoYcd pic.twitter.com/KHDN0Ke7aK

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 5, 2021