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Republicans suffered from a significantly higher COVID-19 excess death rate during the pandemic than Democrats, according to a new study.
For much of the early phase of the pandemic, voters from the two parties endured a somewhat comparable excess death rate, with Republicans sustaining about 22% higher excess deaths. However, when the pandemic shifted into the vaccine phase, a much more drastic dichotomy between the two parties emerged, with Republicans sustaining 76% more excess deaths than Democrats, the study found.
"Overall, the excess death rate for Republicans was 5.4 percentage points (pp), or 76%, higher than the excess death rate for Democrats," the study said. "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."
The excess death rate gap between Republicans and Democrats jumped from 1.6 percentage points to 10.4 percentage points after vaccines became available, according to the study.
"This sharp contrast in the excess death rate gap before and after vaccines were available suggests that vaccine take-up likely played an important role," the NBER study explained. "Data on vaccine take-up by party is limited and unavailable in our dataset, but there is evidence of differences in vaccination attitudes and reported uptake based on political party affiliation."
The NBER study noted it was able to obtain voting data from Florida and Ohio but that it was not able to receive information on a person’s vaccination status.
Other studies and polling found that Democrats were more likely to receive a COVID-19 vaccine or undergo more stringent pandemic prevention measures than Democrats. For example, a recent Morning Consult poll found that only 64% of Republicans were vaccinated or planned to get vaccinated compared to 87% of Democrats.
In Florida, 69.3% of residents are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, while 59.6% of Ohioans are fully vaccinated against the virus, according to Our World In Data. The national average is 68.4% fully vaccinated for COVID-19.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12 2022, @09:48AM
Dems die less as the 81 million of democrats who voted brandon from their graves can't die again.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday October 12 2022, @09:22PM
I remember journalling about COVID-19 and the dangers. Being aghast at the lies and misinformation. Yet that craziness being spread right here in our midst.
While Republicans can get over Trump's sexual assaults, affairs, and vulgarity; they cannot get over Obama being black.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2022, @02:01AM
Republicans were proud to pretend COVID wasn't serious while becoming violent over wearing masks or getting vaccinations. No shit they'll have more fatalities, but expect them to use this tragedy to play the victim card with a heavy dose of altered context propaganda to make liberals seem like demons out to kill conservatives. Real fun being attacked after trying to help people. Fauci got so many death threats while trying to promote public health and safety with a president that did the opposite, and Fauci did it well without trashing the ignorant criminal like it deserved. Republicans also cheered when COVID ravaged blue cities, yet there isn't much noise from liberals celebrating conservative deaths. Some dark humor, some told ya so, but not hateful cheering from the average lib.
Check yourselves Conservatives, the hippies were right on almost every issue and promoting LOVE is much better than HATE. Our planet is dying and we passed the tipping point so now every day is exponentially more important than the last.