According to a study published in Health Affairs on Monday, people who voted Republican in the 2020 presidential election were more likely to die from Covid-19 than people who voted Democrat.
The Republican counties had higher death rates.
There were more Covid-19 deaths in counties where 70% or more of the population voted Republican than in counties where less than 30% of the population voted Republican.
Ethnicity, access to healthcare, age and chronic diseases are included in the figures.
Structural, policy and behavioral differences are likely to be the reason for the low mortality rates.
Senior author Dylan Roby, an associate professor of health, society and behavior at the University of California, Irvine, suggested the county-level voting patterns likely mirrored compliance with protective measures introduced to help curb the swine flu epidemic.
Neil Sehgal, an assistant professor of health policy and management at the University of Maryland, said that the disparity highlights the weaknesses of a vaccine-only approach to public health.
People of all political stripes are affected by the impact of partisanship. People who live in a Republican county don't vote Republican. In the reddest counties, you have people who aren't able to vote or leave who are subject to the policies and behaviors surrounding them.
Covid-19 has been a political force in the US for a long time. The governors of Florida and Texas were among the leading Republican politicians who were against public health measures like masks and vaccines. Donald Trump promoted bogus treatments like bleach and downplayed the dangers of the Pandemic. Eight of the 10 states with the highest per capita death rates are leaning Republican.
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