A study was conducted that revealed that once a COVID vaccine was available, Republicans were more likely to die than Democrats:

Republicans’ excess death rate spiked after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, a study says

Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the COVID-19 Pandemic

“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.”

Do you think this will have a significant impact on the election results in states like Ohio and Florida?

    • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
      711·
      2 months ago

      “Data from the U.S. Postal Service and Census Bureau shows how the pandemic drove urban professionals who were able to work remotely — disproportionately Democrats — out of coastal, progressive cities to seek more space or recreational amenities in the nation’s suburbs and Sun Belt. This moved liberals out of electoral districts where Democrats reliably won by large margins into many purple regions that had the potential to swing with just small changes to the map.”

      Yes, please, we need every tiny bit of help to win this one.

      • Sundial@lemm.ee
        32·
        2 months ago

        Admittedly, that specific change may have been negated or reversed thanks to the return to work mandates a lot of employers are now imposing.

        • oozynozh@lemm.ee
          5·
          2 months ago

          Ugh, this isn’t a jab at you but it pisses me off when old money employers call it “return to work” … Like wtf do they think we’ve been doing this whole time?

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          It’s probably one of the reasons they’re so Hell-bent on it, come to think of it.

      • eldavi@lemmy.ml
        24·
        2 months ago

        the people in that demographic seek fiscal policies that protect their wealth and they’re not voting liberal to get it.

        • Habahnow
          8·
          2 months ago

          Not always, especially if they lived in liberal area. I know a lot of well off people that don’t mind being taxed and want other less fortunate than them to get help from the government. That or they view Trump as they threat to democracy that he is.