A study was conducted that revealed that once a COVID vaccine was available, Republicans were more likely to die than Democrats:

Republicans’ excess death rate spiked after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, a study says

Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the COVID-19 Pandemic

“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.”

Do you think this will have a significant impact on the election results in states like Ohio and Florida?

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    24 days ago

    COVID has already had an impact on the election. The census date was April 1, 2020. In March of 2020, COVID had started to severely hit NYC but was only ramping up in other areas. NY ended up losing a congressional seat in that census, by only 89 people. There’s no doubt that COVID’s timing screwed up NY State’s congressional map, and contributed to the slim Republican majority in this year’s census.

    • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      24 days ago

      Yikes. We’re all thinking about how covid disproportionately affects the elderly, but it also disproportionately affects people who live in denser population centers.

      I don’t like talking about pandemics in terms of which political party they help, but I guess the dems may have been hit harder in the end…

      • spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works
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        24 days ago

        I’m too lazy to look this up, but I believe death rates were higher out of cities vs in cities. Half the reason hospitals were packed in cities is because rural people went where the ventilators were. Everywhere had all the covid waves, they just hit cities first.

        Elderly tend to be more R, and D folks were more likely to mask and vaccinate. But elderly vaccinated pretty well across the board and the divide was bigger in the young. Lots of factors, but my money is on D making out slightly better as a broad cohort. Tragic all around though.

        Ok I did some searching and excess mortality points to higher rural impact, but official cause of death data is mixed (too lazy to link though).

        https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-sas-comparing-urban-and-rural-excess-mortality-during-covid-19-pandemic