A study conducted by Yale researchers found a significant partisan divide in COVID death rates after vaccines became available.
A team of Yale researchers has found that Republican voters in two U.S. states had more excess deaths than Democratic voters after vaccines for COVID-19 became widely available to counter the disease. The discrepancy didn’t exist prior to the vaccines.
Jacob Wallace, assistant professor of public health (health policy); Jason L. Schwartz, associate professor of public health (health policy); and Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, assistant professor at the Yale School of Management conducted the research using a novel linkage of political party affiliation and mortality data to assess whether there were differences in COVID-19 excess death rates between Republican and Democratic voters. The authors estimated excess death rates as the percentage increase in deaths above expected deaths due to seasonality, geographic location, party affiliation, and age.
The study found that overall, the excess death rate for Republican voters was 5.4 percentage points, or 76%, higher than the excess death rate for Democratic voters. After COVID-19 vaccines became widely available, the excess death rate gap between Republicans and Democrats widened from 1.6 percentage points to 10.4 percentage points.
“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 authors said in the study.
The study’s findings were recently released as a working paper by the researchers in collaboration with the National Bureau of Economic Research. The findings have been reported extensively in national media including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NBC News.
Schwartz said the findings amplify the critical importance of vaccines.
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I think that applies to Long COVID too. How many MAGARINOs will end up with an even worse case of brain fog after they get Long COVID?
Lloyd Lofthouse, was “Covid” ever isolated? There is all of this b.s. about its origins and yet the reported symptoms from what I read are akin to flu-type symptoms. It is absurd that a so-called virus that was lab-originated has reported symptoms that are flu-like and yet a scare was cooked up over something that is unproven to exist and was only allegedly diagnosed with a PCR test that was not used properly to begin with.
Diane Ravitch, you claimed that hospitals were flooded by the unvaccinated. Was that because Dr. Fauci said so? I have heard nurses give testimony under oath that most Covid-positive patients in their care are those who have been fully vaccinated, so before you parrot disinformation about a pandemic of the unvaccinated, you might want to listen to people who actually have all of the facts?
This is no different than what happen with the people in the Peoples Temple Cult in Jonestown, Guyana, 18 November 1978.
Republicans and other Trump Cult followers drank and are drinking his cool aide of lies and misinformation. They are blindly and stupidly following a Pip Piper who has led to the division in this country like not other in the history of this nation.
Jim Jones did not care that hundreds of his follows died and Donald J. Trump does not care about what has happened to his followers or what will happen in them in the future.
I am shocked, SHOCKED!, I tell you!
Diane Ravitch, excluding the various mutations and preexisting comorbidity risks, all available data seems to suggest that the milder variants of this so-called virus can resolve on their own or with early treatment.