Yep as reality hits and their folks started dying around them only the most stubborn and stupid would stick to their ideological ignorance. From July, '21 too
Good for her. It will be interesting to see how Georgia rates have changed
'A total of 17 of the 18 states that voted for Trump in the 2020 election have the lowest vaccination rates. Georgia also has very low vaccination rates (as of this writing), but it went for Biden by a very small margin."
compared to the others.
And thanks for the wave .. .. pretty sure it's new for my list which is pretty up there now, thanks to you and newmedman,
h/t dropdeadfred's latest dumbfuckery - Covid vaccines not linked to deaths, major US study finds
Published 8 March
Reuters
A major study of vaccine side-effects in the US found no link between two Covid jabs and the number of deaths recorded after vaccination.
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said 92% of reported side-effects after the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were mild.
About 4,500 people died after being vaccinated, in the US, up to June 2021.
But no unusual patterns in the data were detected that might suggest a link to the vaccine itself.
Study author Dr Tom Shimabukuro said: "[It's] reassuring that reactions to both mRNA vaccines are generally mild and subside after one or two days - confirming reports from clinical trials and post-authorisation monitoring."
Heart inflammation
Researchers looked at "adverse events" from nearly 300 million vaccine doses given in the US between December 2020 and June 2021.
Members of the public, healthcare providers and drug companies can report any possible side-effect, using the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System .. https://vaers.hhs.gov/ (VAERS) , run by the CDC and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
A second method, V-safe, allows individuals to fill out a survey on their smartphone in the months after vaccination.
Both systems rely on individuals deciding to self-report an adverse event.
* From the VAERS data, the CDC received more than 340,000 reports of adverse events after vaccination, with 92% registered as mild
* The most common side effects were headaches, fatigue, fever and chills
* Of the more than 22,000 events recorded as serious, the most common was shortness of breath
Other serious events, including a form of heart inflammation known as myocarditis, have already been identified following both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccinations, although that side-effect is very rare.
Because Covid jabs were originally authorised in the United States under emergency-use provisions, healthcare providers are required to report all deaths following vaccination, whether a doctor suspects a "plausible" link or not.
About 4,500 deaths were recorded in the six months to June 2021, more than 80% among people aged 60 and over.
Death rates
"The rapid pace at which Covid-19 vaccines were administered under emergency use, especially among older populations, was unprecedented," the CDC's Dr David Shay said.
"Due to their age, this group already has a higher baseline mortality rate than the general population and our results follow similar patterns of death rates for people in this age group following other adult vaccinations."
The researchers said less than 1% of people who filled out the V-safe survey had sought any medical care following vaccination.
Dr Elizabeth Phillips, a professor of medicine, at Vanderbilt University, who was not involved in the study, said: "Reassuringly, the six-month VAERS data supports that - although approximately one in 1,000 individuals vaccinated may have an adverse effect, most of these are non-serious.
"For adverse events of special interest, it is reassuring that there were no unexpected [safety] signals other than myocarditis and anaphylaxis, already known to be associated with mRNA vaccines."
At the start of the pandemic, Montana fared better than average when it came to Covid deaths per capita. Then, a Republican became governor, safety measures were pushed aside and hospitals were pushed to the brink. A local nurse, Vicky Rae Byrd, joins Mehdi to discuss this preventable American tragedy.
The death toll in red counties in 2022 has been 40 percent higher when adjusted for population
Analysis by Philip Bump National columnist September 8, 2022 at 12:15 p.m. EDT
Medical staff prepare to move the body of a deceased covid-19 patient to a funeral home van at the Willis-Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport, La., on Aug. 18, 2021. (Gerald Herbert/AP)
About every three minutes last month, an American died of the coronavirus.
Compared to other months during the two years prior, that toll is comparably mild. In January, for example, there was a death from covid-19 in the United States more than once a minute. But August was worse than June, for example. So far this year, more than a quarter of a million people have died of the disease — a toll far larger .. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html .. than even a bad flu season — though much of the country clearly considers the pandemic over.
And, as has obviously been the case, deaths from the coronavirus are inextricably linked to politics.
A lengthy new report at ProPublica .. https://www.propublica.org/article/montana-covid-response-pushed-hospital-to-brink .. elevates a specific example of how politics affected the response to the virus. It explores the situation at a hospital in Montana, where Republican leadership blocked vaccine mandates, even for health-care workers. Gov. Greg Gianforte (R), elected in November 2020, quickly enacted policies aimed at minimizing the perception of the danger posed by the virus upon taking office. The article is a grim portrait of how the hospital was forced to scramble to care for sick and dying patients, even as political leaders scored points with ostentatious opposition to efforts to treat the pandemic seriously.
It’s a snapshot of a divergence along political lines that is pervasive nationally even today.
Over the course of the pandemic, more people have contracted the virus and died of it in counties that voted for Joe Biden in 2020 than in ones that voted for Donald Trump. But late last year, the toll in counties that backed Trump by more than 20 points passed the toll in counties that supported Biden by that margin.
That’s despite those strongly pro-Biden counties being home to more than 30 percent more people. If we control for population, we see that while infection rates are fairly similar regardless of party, the death toll has been far worse in counties that backed Trump. The counties in which Trump won by the widest margin have seen a cumulative population-adjusted death toll that’s 42 percent higher than counties that backed Biden by the widest margin.
In 2020, Biden-voting counties (overall) had 8 percent more deaths than Trump-voting ones, once you adjust for population. In 2021, Trump-voting counties had more than 50 percent more population-adjusted deaths. In 2022, the toll has been about 40 percent higher per resident in Trump counties.
It’s often the case that Biden-voting counties see more population-adjusted infections in a month (though this is, of course, affected by the regularity with which people seek out and report tests). But the last time there were more population-adjusted deaths in blue counties than in red ones was in early 2021.
A central factor here, of course, is vaccinations. There’s an obvious divergence in the death toll in mid-2021 on the graphs above, one that occurred shortly after Biden- and Trump-voting counties began to separate on likelihood of vaccination. (On the graphs below, June 2021 is indicated with a vertical line to show the point at which the rates of full vaccination began to diverge. Then the delta variant hit.)
Of course, it isn’t only vaccines. The ProPublica story also explores the importance of the right’s embrace of unproven treatments for covid-19, such as the drug ivermectin. When a prominent Republican figure in the state fell ill, her family pushed for the patient to receive that drug and hydroxychloroquine, in keeping with arguments from the political right about the efficacy of those medications as treatments. Elected officials joined the fight. The patient died.
The idea that there exist medications that can broadly protect the unvaccinated has been compelling for a few reasons. For one, it allows those on the right to continue to position themselves against the establishment and “elites” like government medical officials. For another, it suggests that the pandemic was never as big a deal as it was made out to be, a common argument .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/16/coronavirus-desantis-vaccine/?itid=lk_inline_manual_23 .. as the currently most-prevalent variant appears to less frequently result in death.
What happened at St. Peter’s Health in Helena, Mont., was a microcosm of fights happening across the country, fights often centered on politics and political views.The effect is that, even as the omicron variant allows many Americans to focus attention away from the coronavirus, the virus does more damage in more-Republican places.
In August, 16 out of every 10 million residents of Trump-voting counties died of covid-19 every day. That’s not very many, thankfully. But it’s still nearly a third higher than the rate of deaths in Biden-voting ones.
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