They proved so powerful, and the partisan attitudes toward them so different, that a gap in Covid's death toll quickly emerged. I have covered that gap in two newsletters -- one this summer, one last month -- and today's newsletter offers an update.
The brief version: The gap in Covid's death toll between red and blue America has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point.
In October, 25 out of every 100,000 residents of heavily Trump counties died from Covid, more than three times higher than the rate in heavily Biden counties (7.8 per 100,000). October was the fifth consecutive month that the percentage gap between the death rates in Trump counties and Biden counties widened.
-- David Leonhardt, U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder, New York Times, 8 November 2021
No comments:
Post a Comment