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I had an 'encounter' with an anti-vaxxer on the DJT board earlier today. He asserted that those who received the Covid 'jabs' were portraying themselves as heroes. Yeah, I never heard that either. Anyway, no reply to the following from me.....

No, I view myself as no more a hero for getting Covid jabs than I was when I received jabs for polio, flu, pneumonia, shingles, tetanus, RSV, smallpox, typhoid, cholera and yellow fever. Some of you will remember where you received those last 4 jabs.

But then neither am I an undereducated, junk science believing, conspiracy theory mongering, f'ing moron.

1. Read the following

2. Lose your 💩 and claim 'fake news' while failing to come up with any factual rebuttal. In other words, SOP for Trumpanzees like yourself.

3. Thank you for your service..............in ridding the country of the dumbest among us and for keeping the Darwin Awards factory working 3 shifts.😏

Political party affiliation linked to excess COVID deaths
Stephanie Soucheray, MA July 24, 2023
COVID-19
polling place
Terry Chay / Flickr cc

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/political-party-affiliation-linked-excess-covid-deaths

Today in JAMA Network Open, researchers published more evidence that personal political leanings may have contributed to excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research builds on previous work that has shown that right-wing "red" counties had higher death rates during the pandemic than more left-wing "blue" counties.

The study looked at deaths in both Florida and Ohio during the first 22 months of the pandemic and found the overall excess death rate of Republican voters was 15% higher than that of Democrats. The gap widened further once COVID-19 vaccines were introduced.

The cross-sectional study was conducted using data from voting records and death certificates between March 2020 and December 2021. Voter and mortality data from the counties from 2017 through 2021 were compared to calculate excess deaths, or the number of deaths that exceeded expected, typical numbers seen pre-pandemic.

In total, the authors considered the deaths of 518,159 people between January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2021. All were age 25 and older, and the median age at time of death was 78 years. All included deaths were among individuals for whom political party affiliation could be determined.

According to the authors, political party affiliation in Ohio was defined by whether an individual voted in a party’s primary election within the preceding 2 calendar years, and in Florida, political party affiliation was based on party registration.

15% higher excess deaths among Republicans

In general, there was a 20.5 percentage-point (95% prediction interval [PI], 15.6 to 25.6 percentage points) increase in weekly death counts in Florida and Ohio between March 2020 and December 2021. Excess death rates were 2.8 percentage points (15%) higher for Republican voters compared with Democratic voters (95% PI, 1.6 to 3.7 percentage points).

The higher excess death rate observed among Republican voters may continue through subsequent stages of the pandemic.

After May of 2021, roughly 1 month after COVID-19 vaccines became widely available, the gap between Republicans and Democrats further widened, to 7.7 percentage points (95% PI, 6.0 to 9.3 percentage points) in the adjusted analysis, or a 43% difference, the authors said. The difference was seen in Florida, but was most pronounced in Ohio.

By looking at individual-level connections between political affiliations and excess deaths, the study highlights that the most significant divide occurred only after COVID-19 vaccines became widely available.

"The results suggest that well-documented differences in vaccination attitudes and reported uptake between Republican and Democratic voters may have been factors in the severity and trajectory of the pandemic," the authors wrote.

The authors concluded by noting that the official US strategy for COVID-19 vaccines has shifted to updated booster doses for previously vaccinated individuals, but 50 million adults in the United States have yet to complete a primary vaccination series, and these people remain at substantially increased risk of hospitalization and death.

"If differences in COVID-19 vaccination by political party affiliation persist, particularly in the absence of other pandemic mitigation strategies, the higher excess death rate observed among Republican voters may continue through subsequent stages of the pandemic," the authors concluded.


Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame

Misinformation alone is not to blame, rather an abundance of credulous, undereducated, junk science believing morons must 'take credit' for providing such 'rich soil' for misinformation to take root in and flourish with such deadly results.😷

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate

The uneven toll of the coronavirus pandemic

A new scientific paper out this week shows a larger increase in excess deaths among Republicans after the Covid vaccine became widely available.
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July 30, 2023, 9:46 AM CDT
By Dante Chinni

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/data-download/uneven-toll-coronavirus-pandemic-rcna97107

WASHINGTON — The official health emergency over Covid may be over, but the effects still linger. And this week the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, published a study that supported a theory many had suspected: The pandemic didn’t hit all Americans the same — and Republicans, who lagged behind in accepting the Covid vaccine, paid a steeper price.