Philip Bump: “It is red America, Donald Trump-voting America, that has seen the worst effects of the pandemic. With divergent vaccination rates, with the unvaccinated population that’s most at risk being made up of Republicans at three times the rate of Democrats, that gap is poised to grow.” “If we break down monthly case and death figures by county vote in 2020, we see that Trump counties have been hardest hit by the pandemic on a per capita basis since last year. If we throw in vaccination rates, we see that it is those same counties that have been the slowest to get vaccinated.”
won't be enough to counter Gerrymandering and other voter suppression & anti-democratic tactics of the GQP sadly
Marcus Lamb, founder of evangelical television network Daystar and an outspoken opponent of Covid-19 vaccines, has died after being hospitalized with the virus, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports,
Remember this is the same clown who used 3.9 million in PPP money from the government to buy a private jet.
“Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden,” NPR reports. Also interesting: “In October, the reddest tenth of the country saw death rates that were six times higher than the bluest tenth.” “The trend was robust, even when controlling for age, which is the primary demographic risk of COVID-19 mortality.”
Actually from some reports the recent Covid death rate appears to be 6 times higher in Republican counties.
“William Hartmann, one of two Republican election officials from Michigan who initially refused to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election in Wayne County, where Joe Biden had trounced Donald Trump, died on Nov. 30 at a hospital near Detroit,” the New York Times reports. “About two weeks before Mr. Hartmann’s death, which was confirmed by the Michigan Republican Party, his sister, Elizabeth Hartmann, wrote on Facebook that he was ‘in ICU with Covid pneumonia and currently on a ventilator.’” “Mr. Hartmann had been outspoken in his opposition to Covid vaccines.”