After Vaccines Became Available Partisan Death Rate Gap Widened Significantly As More Republicans Died of Covid-19: New Study
“In 2018 and the early parts of 2020, excess death rates for Republicans and Democrats are similar, and centered around zero,” the researchers explained.
“Both groups experienced a similar large spike in excess deaths in the winter of 2020-2021. However, in the summer of 2021 — after vaccines were widely available — the Republican excess death rate rose to nearly double that of Democrats, and this gap widened further in the winter of 2021,” they concluded.
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.
