Trump voters tend to be in the age group that get hit the hardest by respiratory ailments dumb ****.Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 11:13 am » wrote: ↑ Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame
Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden. That's according to a new analysis by NPR that examines how political polarization and misinformation are driving a significant share of the deaths in the pandemic.
NPR looked at deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which vaccinations widely became available. People living in counties that went 60% or higher for Trump in November 2020 had 2.73 times the death rates of those that went for Biden. Counties with an even higher share of the vote for Trump saw higher COVID-19 mortality rates.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-sho ... death-rate
90% of the deaths were in the 60 and older group.
The remaining 270MM Americans younger than 60 shared only 100,000 deaths between.
For a math challenged dumb **** like you I'll do the math....that left the under 60 group [the back bone of our work force] a 1 in 2700 chance of death.
About the same as the measles.......
