No they used OH and FL only as those states had the most complete data. Yes the virus affected people differently who had different behaviors. They directly show how the rates were similar early in the pandemic and then diverge as the vaccine became available and there was more uptake in D counties than R.
The whole thing is built on a foundation of erroneous data
High fidelity data - weighted and representative is THE foundation for any higher ordered assertion or scientific thought
This paper took the inaccurate and skewed data CDC was shotgunning (and routinely correcting) and then ran with it
You can not take the "covid death counts" that were referenced and build amy meaningful assertion on top of them
Why?
A couple of really good reasons -
1) The definition of a case of "covid" was set to include prevalence counts of each of the other coronavirus cases, pneumonia, influenza, pertussis plus suspected cases AND "presumed" cases of "covid"
^^^ thats NOT how your track an outbreak that features a novel , never seen before coronavirus
2) Dual death certificates were authorized when
attributing mortality to "covid" - so a person could die from ANYTHING -- but it they also happened to have had a cold or were presumed/suspected of having covid -- then they were issued a second death certificate to count - as a "covid death"
^^ and THAT is bullshit
and CDC knew better
So - tell me what the intent or purpose of such a paper is anyway?
why launch a paper - an interim study with faulty data. and no peer review or framework of limitations/cooperative efforts that consider other causes or factors besides "political class"
Why put that paper out there?
Its a shameless, half baked political hack attempt to demonize people for no good reason other than squashing resistance
Seriously - you think there are
codified behaviors or beliefs within the Republican party that contribute to higher prevalence of respiratory disease?
Or - maybe what they really want to say is "conservative type people" (?) - are stubborn and a danger to themselves and the general public
So - what about the fact that NEITHER political party was required to take the GD shots at all?
How does that factor in?
The executive branch - the supreme court
All exempt
THERES YOUR POLITICAL ANGLE TO THE WHOLE ROTTEN SORDID AFFAIR
They're ALL Above us and better than
us and exempted themselves from what we were all threatened with -
Fking unbelievable
(not YOU , Dionysus - the
authors of that worthless paper have me pissed off )