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He challenged Trump's wisdom and extensive knowledge of Virology when he just should have shut up and let rightist Americunts die like flies.


Multiple national analyses and academic papers find higher COVID-19 mortality in Republican-leaning counties and states: by late winter 2022, counties that voted for Trump had substantially higher cumulative death rates than Biden counties (326 versus 258 per 100,000 in one dataset), and aggregated state comparisons reported red-state death rates tens of percent higher than blue- state rates post-vaccine rollout [4] [5] [6].

2. How big was the difference? Different studies give different metrics

A widely cited media analysis reported cumulative death rates in red states were about 38% higher than in blue states after vaccines became available
[1], a preprint and follow-ups estimated roughly 222,000 oexcesso deaths in red states (about 305 per day) through February 2022 [2] [7], and county-
level work found the most pro-Trump counties had death rates about 180% of
the most pro-Biden counties in late 2021 and early 2022 [5].

3. When did the gap appear u and why timing matters

The political gap was not uniform across the pandemic: in the earliest phase (spring 2020) many big, blue cities experienced the worst early surges, but the partisan gap widened after vaccines became widely available, with Republican areas seeing larger relative excess mortality thereafter u a pattern reported by Yale researchers, NPR and other outlets [8] [9] [10].

4. Explaining the gap: vaccines, behavior, policy and underlying health

Researchers point to lower vaccination uptake in Republican-leaning areas as the strongest single driver, complemented by differences in masking, social- distancing behavior and state policy choices; models and regressions cited vaccination rates as the factor with the largest effect on state death rates, while political environment itself also captured residual differences linked to behavior and policy
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