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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]karynnj
(61,149 posts)Republicans. Yet we know it I'd pretty close to even, with slightly more Democrats. If the study referred to is well done, the rate of getting Covid, being hospitalized, and dying is higher in areas that had more Trump support, then it very likely is true more Trump voters are dying.
Your example biases the results by selecting a huge Democratic urban area and smaller rural counties that do not add up to anywhere near the population. Yet, the sum of all the Trump areas is not the tiny counterpart to the big city.
What we do know, from many analysts, in many states, is that the rate per 100,000, of getting covid is higher for the unvacinated. Even more startling is that for every age group, the portion of people who test positive that end up hospitalized is far higher for the unvacvinated.
If people who support Trump really are far more likely to be unvaccinated, it COULD be true more Repunlicans have been lost to covid than Democrats. Before claiming that, it would have to be directly studied.