Jeoffry Gordon, MD, MPH on Sensible Medicine

[Jeoffry Gordon, MD, MPH]

By using their professional authority to motivate people not to mask or get vaccinated. See: EXCESS DEATH RATES FOR REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by Jacob Wallace, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jason L. Schwartz, NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, Working Paper 30512, http://www.nber.org/papers/w30512 . This is just one example.

ABSTRACT: Political affiliation has emerged as a potential risk factor for COVID-19, amid evidence that

Republican-leaning counties have had higher COVID-19 death rates than Democrat- leaning

counties and evidence of a link between political party affiliation and vaccination views. 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. Post- vaccines, the excess death rate gap between Republicans and

Democrats widened from 1.6 pp (22% of the Democrat excess death rate) to 10.4 pp (153% of the

Democrat excess death rate). The gap in excess death rates between Republicans and Democrats

is concentrated in counties with low vaccination rates and only materializes after vaccines

became widely available.

[Brad Banko, MD, MS]

Garbage science. Republicans are more rural, Democrats more urban... in the end, MORE Democrats have died than Republicans.

[EC]

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