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How well did Trump handle covid?
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Author: bladeslap Date:
9/15/2022 10:46:34 PM +3/-1 |
NPR looked at deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which vaccinations widely became available. People living in counties that went 60% or higher for Trump in November 2020 had 2.73 times the death rates of those that went for Biden. Counties with an even higher share of the vote for Trump saw higher COVID-19 mortality rates.
In October, the reddest tenth of the country saw death rates that were six times higher than the bluest tenth, according to Charles Gaba, an independent health care analyst who's been tracking partisanship trends during the pandemic and helped to review NPR's methodology. Those numbers have dropped slightly in recent weeks, Gaba says: "It's back down to around 5.5 times higher."
The Reddest counties, the top 10% highest Trump supporting counties had a death rate 5.5x higher than the national average. Those counties that voted at least 60% for Trump had almost 3x higher death rate.
Trump supporters, like old guy and angry man, believed the garbage he was peddling. Those counties didn't:
1. Wear Masks
2. Get vaccinated
at nearly the same levels as Non trump supporting counties
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How well did Trump handle covid?
+3/-1 bladeslap 9/15/2022 10:46:34 PM
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