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Calista241

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10. I love how everyone here just assumes all COVID deaths are from anti-vaxxer Repukes.
Mon Sep 27, 2021, 08:33 AM
Sep 2021

From the CDC:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.html

Covid is a problem for our entire country, and not just white Republicans.

Across the US, white people over the age of 65 have a greater than 90% vaccination rate. Voting trends would tell us that most / many of those people will be voting Republican. Even here in Georgia, with our lower vaccination pace, people over the age of 65 have a 94% vaccination rate.

The media, and DU apparently, focuses on the loud white dude facebook poster that is anti-vax and then gets hospitalized and / or dies. But the real data is much more mixed, and vulnerable populations are suffering horribly. According to the Bloomberg article below, Black and Hispanic populations are lagging in vaccination rate.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/us-vaccine-demographics.html

Georgia Vaccination rate
Black: 41.9%
White: 50.7%
Asian: 69.1%
Hispanic: 38.0%

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