The partisan gap in Covid deaths has grown even larger.
— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) November 8, 2021
October was the fifth consecutive month that the percentage gap between the death rates in heavily Trump counties and heavily Biden counties widened.
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Since Trump lost the election, the Trumpiest areas of the country have had a death toll 50% higher than blue areas. The GOP is killing its own voters with its own lies. And they don’t care. https://t.co/tkwpWdVHYe
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) October 30, 2021
The polarization of death.https://t.co/dYE5b5zXh3 pic.twitter.com/zVd36PLBoa
— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) October 30, 2021
COVID spread was 8% lower in states with Democratic governors because of stricter restrictions, according to a new study in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine. https://t.co/alpx5NfSbj
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 12, 2021
Remember, it's a big-city, blue state pandemic pic.twitter.com/F64JqYr5Sw
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 1, 2021
We are just beginning to scratch the surface of the ways in which anti-urban sentiment exacerbated the pandemic https://t.co/83oaYahqBU
— Jake Anbinder (@JakeAnbinder) September 30, 2021
Insurrection by other means: Republicans are ready to die of COVID to spite Biden, Democrats https://t.co/7siJChhHxu
— Salon (@Salon) November 9, 2021
Leonhardt's assessment of the effect of vaccines on covid deaths this year is spot on, but we can go further.
— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 8, 2021
First, partisanship overlapped with death tolls prior to vaccines. Second, partisanship also correlated with deaths within states like Florida. https://t.co/Gx3IvOIKCS
Sad! 