More REPUBLICANS Than DEMOCRATS Likely DIED FROM COVID-19, Study Says

Zorro · Dec 2, 2022

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"In 2018 and the early parts of 2020, excess death rates for Republicans and Democrats are similar, and centered around zero," wrote the researchers, Jacob Wallace, Jason L. Schwartz and Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham. "Both groups experienced a similar large spike in excess deaths in the winter of 2020-2021. However, in the summer of 2021 — after vaccines were widely available — the Republican excess death rate rose to nearly double that of Democrats, and this gap widened further in the winter of 2021."

The excess death rate for people of both parties was about 37% greater in late 2020 than it was a year earlier, according to a chart accompanying the report. But after vaccines became widely available in the spring of 2020, big disparities began to emerge.

Excess deaths among Democrats at the end of last year were just above 10% compared to 2019. Among Republicans, they were about 35%, the chart said.

The researchers didn't have data regarding vaccination rates among the excess deaths. But other research shows that the unvaccinated and the unboosted are much more likely to be made seriously ill by the coronavirus.

A paper published last month in JAMA Internal Medicine said that the unvaccinated are 10.5 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID. The unboosted are 2.5 times more likely, it said.

The Yale researchers said the partisan divergence in excess deaths after vaccines became available is likely attributable to vaccination rates.

"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," they wrote. "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."
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Pretty straightforward, as long as these Yale researchers know their math. Excess deaths from Covid-19 were comparable between registered Democrats & registered Republicans, until the vaccines BECAME WIDELY AVAILABLE. Then the excess began running significantly higher (in Florida & Ohio), for our Republican friends, than for Democratic ones. The most likely, differentiating factor, was VACCINATION RATES.
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Your claim is fake news. The GOP collected over 3,000,000 more votes in the recent election than Dems. Some suspect that Republicans are simply hardier.

From the 2018 pre-covid election to last month's elections, Dems lost 9,464,770 voters.
Over the same period, the GOP gained 3,415,117.

The benefits of rugged self-reliance.

Data:
2022 - https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/live_results/2022/house/
2018 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections

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