Eric TopolMar 12, 2024
An update on protection of Covid vaccination against death and the political partisan gap on US Death tolls (←curves are still diverging)
Show threadMisuse Case

@erictopol @flowerpot I think the refrain that “more Republicans are dying from COVID” may be wrong actually.

More people who are poor are dying from COVID. There are more poor people in red states/counties. Poor people, on the whole, don’t vote or at least they don’t vote as regularly.

Wealthy people who live in poorer counties though, tend to vote conservative.

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Mar 12, 2024 at 2:40pmWeb
Show threadMisuse CaseMar 12, 2024

@erictopol @flowerpot So these redder areas full of poorer people have a certain partisan lean because the wealthier people in them who actually vote are voting GOP, but it’s not *those* people who are dying of COVID more. It’s the folks they oppress who don’t participate in the political system much at all.

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Show threadAustin GodberMar 12, 2024
@MisuseCase @erictopol @flowerpot poor or old. That last plot might need normalizing by something.