Re: Covid - Fauci Killed 400,000 Red State Citizens

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] 
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> He challenged Trump's wisdom and extensive knowledge of Virology when he just 
> should have shut up and let rightist Americunts die like flies.
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> Multiple national analyses and academic papers find higher COVID-19 mortality 
> in Republican-leaning counties and states: by late winter 2022, counties that 
> voted for Trump had substantially higher cumulative death rates than Biden 
> counties (326 versus 258 per 100,000 in one dataset), and aggregated state 
> comparisons reported red-state death rates tens of percent higher than blue-
> state rates post-vaccine rollout [4] [5] [6].
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> 2. How big was the difference? Different studies give different metrics
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> A widely cited media analysis reported cumulative death rates in red states 
> were about 38% higher than in blue states after vaccines became available 
> [1], a preprint and follow-ups estimated roughly 222,000 ?excess? deaths in 
> red states (about 305 per day) through February 2022 [2] [7], and county-
> level work found the most pro-Trump counties had death rates about 180% of 
> the most pro-Biden counties in late 2021 and early 2022 [5].
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> 3. When did the gap appear ? and why timing matters
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> The political gap was not uniform across the pandemic: in the earliest phase 
> (spring 2020) many big, blue cities experienced the worst early surges, but 
> the partisan gap widened after vaccines became widely available, with 
> Republican areas seeing larger relative excess mortality thereafter ? a 
> pattern reported by Yale researchers, NPR and other outlets [8] [9] [10].
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> 4. Explaining the gap: vaccines, behavior, policy and underlying health
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> Researchers point to lower vaccination uptake in Republican-leaning areas as 
> the strongest single driver, complemented by differences in masking, social-
> distancing behavior and state policy choices; models and regressions cited 
> vaccination rates as the factor with the largest effect on state death rates, 
> while political environment itself also captured residual differences linked 
> to behavior and policy



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