https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/954985
Quote:
The overall study period covered five presidential elections from 2000 to 2019 and included data for 99.8% of the US population.
Between 2001 and 2019, mortality rates decreased by 22% in Democratic counties (from 850 to 664 per 100,000), but by only half that (11%) in Republican counties (from 867 to 771 per 100,000).
Consequently, the gap in mortality rates between Republican and Democratic counties jumped by 541%, from 16.7 per 100,000 in 2001 to 107 deaths per 100,000 in 2019.
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Basically, the death rates of both Democratic and Republican counties have overall decreases since 2001, but Republican death rates decreased 11% less than those in Democratic counties.
It's almost as if, despite the medical process in the almost 20 year time span, the gun-totting, horse medicine-hocking, crazy people afraid of radio signals end up more dead than their counterparts who don't do that kind of stuff.
Reds' death rate outpases Blue's
