More Republicans than Democrats die from COVID-19
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https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30512/w30512.pdf
Fro the abstract:
”… 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.”
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SCIENCEY!
Did anyone bother to remind these Einsteins that Older Americans are more often registered Republicans than Democrats? And that COVID is overwhelmingly deadly to the elderly, whether they have received the Prophylactic Therapeutics or not? In fact, the majority of deaths over the last year have been among elderly that have indeed received the Pfizer and Moderna Prophylactic Therapeutics?
The Brad
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SCIENCEY!
Did anyone bother to remind these Einsteins that Older Americans are more often registered Republicans than Democrats? And that COVID is overwhelmingly deadly to the elderly, whether they have received the Prophylactic Therapeutics or not? In fact, the majority of deaths over the last year have been among elderly that have indeed received the Pfizer and Moderna Prophylactic Therapeutics?
@LuFins-Dad said in More Republicans than Democrats die from COVID-19:
SCIENCEY!
Did anyone bother to remind these Einsteins that Older Americans are more often registered Republicans than Democrats? And that COVID is overwhelmingly deadly to the elderly, whether they have received the Prophylactic Therapeutics or not? In fact, the majority of deaths over the last year have been among elderly that have indeed received the Pfizer and Moderna Prophylactic Therapeutics?
Science!
Silence, Denier!
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SCIENCEY!
Did anyone bother to remind these Einsteins that Older Americans are more often registered Republicans than Democrats? And that COVID is overwhelmingly deadly to the elderly, whether they have received the Prophylactic Therapeutics or not? In fact, the majority of deaths over the last year have been among elderly that have indeed received the Pfizer and Moderna Prophylactic Therapeutics?
@LuFins-Dad Zero chance they didn’t control for age. Like none whatsoever
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our study is based on data from the only states where we could obtain voter registration information (Florida and Ohio); hence, our results may not generalize to other states
#7 and #20 on the old age list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_median_age
ME, NH, VT, WV have the oldest mean ages, maybe the cold helps, FL comes next.
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@Mik said in More Republicans than Democrats die from COVID-19:
What kind of ghoul would even undertake such a study?
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH (NBER)
Jacob Wallace
Yale School of Public Health
Department of Health Policy and ManagementJason L. Schwartz
Yale School of Public HealthPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham
Yale School of Management and NBERSeriously, the authors and their affiliations are listed in the paper, page 2.
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You would not need to scratch the surface of such credentialed public health academics too deeply, before you hit a clear political slant to the course of their studies. Mostly this guidance comes in the form of a mutually shared understanding of what are acceptable questions and what are acceptable answers. You literally couldn't do that job without an acceptance of those rules.
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@Mik said in More Republicans than Democrats die from COVID-19:
What kind of ghoul would even undertake such a study?
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH (NBER)
Jacob Wallace
Yale School of Public Health
Department of Health Policy and ManagementJason L. Schwartz
Yale School of Public HealthPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham
Yale School of Management and NBERSeriously, the authors and their affiliations are listed in the paper, page 2.
@Axtremus said in More Republicans than Democrats die from COVID-19:
@Mik said in More Republicans than Democrats die from COVID-19:
What kind of ghoul would even undertake such a study?
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH (NBER)
Jacob Wallace
Yale School of Public Health
Department of Health Policy and ManagementJason L. Schwartz
Yale School of Public HealthPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham
Yale School of Management and NBERSeriously, the authors and their affiliations are listed in the paper, page 2.
That still doesn’t answer Mik’s question. What type of Ghouls are Messers Wallace, Schwartz, and Goldsmith-Pinkham (guy with hyphenated last name :eyeroll:)? Their names and qualifications don’t really answer that question.
For instance: Mik may have also asked “What type of idiot would post this study?” And I may have answered “Axtremus”, but that doesn’t address the main point of Mik’s question, what type of idiot is Axtremus? Is he an imbecile, an ignoramus, a fool, a simpleton, dullard, or nitwit? That’s what we need to find out.
I hope that helps!
The Brad
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@jon-nyc said in More Republicans than Democrats die from COVID-19:
Honestly such questions are well within the purview of public health.
Yes. And so are myriad other questions that don't get asked and answered because the answers would be politically inconvenient.
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The colleagues of these academics were coming out with courageous stands about the public health concerns of racism overriding the public health concerns of large BLM gatherings. That is the larger context in which all of this science is practiced, and there isn't a single person listed on that paper who wouldn't sacrifice their science to that context. As it happens, this was a paper that answered a question that they were allowed to think clearly about. Good for them.
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@Axtremus said in More Republicans than Democrats die from COVID-19:
@Mik said in More Republicans than Democrats die from COVID-19:
What kind of ghoul would even undertake such a study?
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH (NBER)
Jacob Wallace
Yale School of Public Health
Department of Health Policy and ManagementJason L. Schwartz
Yale School of Public HealthPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham
Yale School of Management and NBERSeriously, the authors and their affiliations are listed in the paper, page 2.
That still doesn’t answer Mik’s question. What type of Ghouls are Messers Wallace, Schwartz, and Goldsmith-Pinkham (guy with hyphenated last name :eyeroll:)? Their names and qualifications don’t really answer that question.
For instance: Mik may have also asked “What type of idiot would post this study?” And I may have answered “Axtremus”, but that doesn’t address the main point of Mik’s question, what type of idiot is Axtremus? Is he an imbecile, an ignoramus, a fool, a simpleton, dullard, or nitwit? That’s what we need to find out.
I hope that helps!
@LuFins-Dad said in More Republicans than Democrats die from COVID-19:
@Axtremus said in More Republicans than Democrats die from COVID-19:
@Mik said in More Republicans than Democrats die from COVID-19:
What kind of ghoul would even undertake such a study?
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH (NBER)
Jacob Wallace
Yale School of Public Health
Department of Health Policy and ManagementJason L. Schwartz
Yale School of Public HealthPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham
Yale School of Management and NBERSeriously, the authors and their affiliations are listed in the paper, page 2.
That still doesn’t answer Mik’s question.
Sure it does. Public health researchers and economists study this type of questions. Given the names and affiliations of the authors, you can also look further into their body of work to get a better sense of what they have been studying/researching, how this work fits in the context of what they have been studying/researching, why they choose to study research this question now. (If you’re the “follow the money” type, you can lookup who may be funding/commissioning the study/research. But in this case you wouldn’t need to because the authors disclosed the source of funding right on the first page.)
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What might be more fun, is to follow the blacks
South has more. Big cities have more. Did COVID have a racial disparity in mortality and if so, why?
