For red and blue America, a glaring divide in COVID-19 death rates persists 2 years later

[douglas9]

Political polarization in the U.S. was evident and intensifying long before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, two years ago.

Americans were already deeply divided about a multitude of issues, with differing opinions concerning healthcare, immigration, voting rights, gun reform and climate change, often leaving little room for collaboration across the aisle.

Polling shows that the emergence of the novel coronavirus in 2020 exacerbated the rift, pushing Americans further apart on key pandemic response efforts.

Surveys from Pew Research Center, last year, found that in the early months of the pandemic, about 6 in 10 Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents believed the virus was a major threat to the health of the U.S. population, compared to only a third of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents. That 26-point gap would ultimately grow to approximately 40 points by the fall, researchers found.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/red-blue-america-glaring-divide-covid-19-death/story?id=83649085

[Chainfire]

1. Stupid kills. NT

[Johnny2X2X]

2. CDC numbers on deaths and hospitalizations vaxxed vs vaxxed

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/pdfs/mm7104e2-h.pdf

It's still something we can all be careful about and safeguard against, after all there are immune compromised people out there who still need our protection. But all in all, this is a pandemic of unvaxxed idiots now overwhelmingly. If 1,000 people die from Covid in the next few days, only a hand full of them will have been fully vaxxed and boosted. Get vaccinated, Covid is not a big deal anymore if you are.

[Achilleaze]

6. "...a pandemic of unvaxxed idiots." Indeed.

The Republican base is engaged in a mass, lemming-like suicide by willfull ignorance.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Yup

And that's not saying we should ignore Covid now, it's the Liberals in the country whose vigilance is why we're in a much better spot now. But eyes open, the care taking we are still doing now is mostly protecting anti vax idiots from their own choices.

[Nay]

3. The statistics show that the "red" view of COVID was completely wrong, but

don't expect that to change any minds. Facts have rarely mattered to people in a cult.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. What's insane

Is the Righties think they were proven correct. They think we're where we are because the safety measures didn't matter. They think we're down to 27K cases a day, not because people are vaccinated and were taking precautions, but because all of those rules didn't matter.

Yeah, I know, it makes zero sense, just stating where they're coming from. They think they were proven right.

[maxsolomon]

4. Here's the paragraphs that discuss the glaring divide in CV-19 death rates.

An ABC News analysis of federal data found that on average, the death rates in states that voted for Trump were more than 38% higher than in states that voted for Biden, post widespread vaccine availability.

In addition, in the 10 states with the lowest percentage of full vaccinations, death rates were almost twice as high as that of states with the highest vaccination rates, the analysis found.

Over the span of the last 10 months, in the 10 states with the lowest vaccination rates, where between 50 and 54.5% of the total population had been fully vaccinated, there was an average of 153 COVID-19-related deaths per 100,000 residents.

In contrast, during the same time period, the 10 states and jurisdictions with the highest vaccination rates, which all voted for Biden, there was an average of about 82.2 related deaths per 100,000 residents. In all 10 states, about 75% of residents had been fully vaccinated.

What this doesn't account for is both class & race. Deaths among largely Democratic-voting poor African-Americans have been consistently higher, and they make up substantial portions of the population in Red States like MS & AL.

[MOMFUDSKI]

5. I know 2 people personally that

were (the keyword here is WERE) rabid trumpers and anti-vaxxers. They are both dead from Covid.