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[–]Feldheld 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

All cause deaths would be more meaningful. Also it needs to take age distribution into account. If red voters are on average like 10 years older than blue voters they have of course a higher death percentage.

[–]ActuallyNot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's lots of confounders. Here's another important one: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30688638/

Blue counties tend to have better health care, by being in larger urban centres.

Race is also related to both death rate by CoVID and political leaning.

This chart doesn't tell you about causality. It does tell you that CoVID deaths is related to voting Republican and anti- correlated to vaccination rate.

Both points have been noticed before.

[–]MightyMorphinFaggot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Eh I think the biggest problem is that they don't consider you vaxed until you're dripping 2 weeks later.

The second that shot is in your arm to you should be recorded as vaxed.

[–]Feldheld 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. One more reason to count all cause deaths.