COVID deaths were higher in states run by Republicans

[Anonymous]

Where does Ron DeSantis go to get his apology, indeed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/14/covid-death-rates-republican-states-disparity/

Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, consultant Doug Haddix reported Sunday that since July 1 (when the lifesaving vaccine was widely available), the 14 states with the highest death rates were all run by Republican governors. This included Florida (at about 153 deaths per 100,000 residents), Ohio (142 deaths per 100,000), Arizona (138) and Georgia (134). Contrast that with the deep-blue District of Columbia (only 27 deaths per 100,000) and California (58 per 100,000).

For verification, I checked with health-care analyst Charles Gaba, whose data on covid-19 and voting patterns has been widely cited. He ran the numbers for me using data mostly from Johns Hopkins and found similar results. The 16 states with the highest coronavirus death rates since July 1 were all run by Republicans. The worst was West Virginia (about 204 deaths per 100,000), followed closely by Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wyoming and the aforementioned Florida.

The states with the lowest death rates, by contrast, were all run by Democrats — or, in the case of Vermont, Maryland and Massachusetts, by moderate Republican governors who had heavily Democratic legislatures and embraced vaccines and masks. The best jurisdictions were D.C., Vermont, Hawaii and California. Looking at data from the period since May 1 (by which time all U.S. adults theoretically could have been vaccinated) produced similar results.

Florida residents were, since vaccines have been widely available, nearly seven times as likely to die from covid-19 as residents of D.C., nearly three times as likely to die as residents of California and 2½ times as likely to die as residents of New York. With Florida’s population of about 22 million, that’s a lot of unnecessary deaths.

[Anonymous]

Cherry-picking the data, I see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cherry-picking the data, I see.

How so?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cherry-picking the data, I see.

Get some glasses, child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cherry-picking the data, I see.

How so?

This article is a gross distortion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cherry-picking the data, I see.

Oh, just cherry picking death counts.

Why you so biased, OP?

/s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cherry-picking the data, I see.

How so?

This article is a gross distortion.

Notice how they left out Maryland?

And the author seems ignorant of the fact D.C. is not a state.

[Anonymous]

More about how Republicans are killing their constituents:

In addition to the state rankings, Gaba’s latest county-level data confirms earlier patterns: Since May, people in the most pro-Trump tenth of U.S. counties had a death rate more than three times as high as those in the most anti-Trump tenth. The number of overall cases, however, was only 1.3 times as high, indicating that vaccines were preventing death.

Every week, it seems, brings fresh confirmation of the basic truths about the pandemic that have long been obvious to all except those consuming the disinformation of the Trumpy right: Vaccines work. Masks work. Conspiracy theories don’t.

I guess if people want to die for Ron DeSantis (of all people - what a stupid baby whiner he is) or their hero Trump (dumb loser) there's not much we can do about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cherry-picking the data, I see.

Oh, just cherry picking death counts.

Why you so biased, OP?

/s

NP.

- why do you not see how one-sided and biased the WaPo has become?

True or false: since the vaccine has become widely available, per capita death counts have been higher in Republican dominated states?


Simple question with a simple answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cherry-picking the data, I see.

How so?

This article is a gross distortion.

How so?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cherry-picking the data, I see.

How so?

This article is a gross distortion.

Notice how they left out Maryland?

And the author seems ignorant of the fact D.C. is not a state.

Did you not read the quoted passage? Maryland was specifically addressed.

As for DC, it’s population is larger than some states, so I don’t see why you think it should be excluded from this analysis just because it is not technically a state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cherry-picking the data, I see.

How so?

This article is a gross distortion.

Notice how they left out Maryland?

And the author seems ignorant of the fact D.C. is not a state.

Maryland, Massachusetts and Vermont are mentioned as states that have Republican governors but also have huge majorities in the state legislatures.

[Anonymous]

Doesn't Florida have the highest number of old people in the US? Sorting by age could be an interesting data point.

[Anonymous]

For those complaining about the data, this is been tracked forever and posted regularly in the infamous “Covid is a Blue State Bug” thread. None of this is new information.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/875573.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cherry-picking the data, I see.

How so?

This article is a gross distortion.

Notice how they left out Maryland?

And the author seems ignorant of the fact D.C. is not a state.

Did you not read the quoted passage? Maryland was specifically addressed.

As for DC, it’s population is larger than some states, so I don’t see why you think it should be excluded from this analysis just because it is not technically a state.

Spoiler: they did not read the quoted passage.

It’s not that this is a surprise, but it’s nice to see the proof. And having not yet read the article, I don’t know how they addressed the fact that we know red states undercounted covid deaths (there, there, Republicans. There have been articles cited about that on this board for months, so no, I’m not going to go research and cite them for you not to read again). Given Florida’s population, I would not be surprised if they actually were the worst but also lied the most.