Interesting, eh? The areas of the States less likely to be vaccinated are the ones with more excess deaths.
Edit 1: add a link: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30512/w30512.pdf
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It’s a politically biased report. I already know where they stand.
"My mind is made up. Don't confuse me with the facts."
It's an old story folks.
Facts? You posted a report. Not a scientific study. Not something that will be peer-reviewed. A politically biased report. This is the second stupidest post that you made, eclipsed only by the pharma-funded modeling study.
It's pretty simple folks. Look at the individuals who died of covid, and look up their voter registration in the two states that allow you to.. Hmmm, so many Repuclicans, so many Democrats. Oh look! After the vaccines became available Republicans were dying at a higher rate.
"This study constructs an individual-level dataset with political affiliation and excess death rates during the COVID-19 pandemic via a linkage of 2017 voter registration in Ohio and Florida to mortality data from 2018 to 2021. We estimate substantially higher excess death rates for registered Republicans when compared to registered Democrats, with almost all of the difference concentrated in the period after vaccines were widely available in our study states. Overall, the excess death rate for Republicans was 5.4 percentage points (pp), or 76%, higher than the excess death rate for Democrats. Post- vaccines, the excess death rate gap between Republicans and Democrats widened from 1.6 pp (22% of the Democrat excess death rate) to 10.4 pp (153% of the Democrat excess death rate). The gap in excess death rates between Republicans and Democrats is concentrated in counties with low vaccination rates and only materializes after vaccines became widely available." https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30512/w30512.pdf
This bears out at an individual level what all those larger studies were showing:
National Bureau of Economic Research: September 2022 "The gap in excess death rates between Republicans and Democrats is concentrated in counties with low vaccination rates and only materializes after vaccines became widely available." https://www.nber.org/papers/w30512
Health Affairs Journal: June 2022 "Majority Republican counties experienced 72.9 additional deaths per 100,000 people relative to majority Democratic counties" https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00085
Scientific American: July 18, 2022 "although the highly transmissible Omicron variant narrowed the gap in infection rates, hospitalization and death rates, which are dramatically reduced by vaccines, remain higher in Republican-leaning parts of the country" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-republican-counties-have-higher-death-rates-than-those-in-democratic-counties/
Remember that line that you heard on reddit that you like to stupidly repeat without fully understanding it? The one about correlation?
This is a study about correlation. They did not isolate vaccines. You’re connecting it. Maybe it is the vaccines and maybe not.
But then, your politically biased report also didn’t factor in a few other things that happened right around the same time - liberal states shut down stores, restaurants, and businesses harder than conservative states. Liberals also voluntarily locked themselves in their basements.
What’s that line about correlation that you stupidly repeat without fully understanding it again?