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May 4, 2021, 11 tweets

📣 MICHIGAN: A case study in how the #COVID19 partisan "hoax"/anti-science divide led to the COVID partisan vaccination divide:
acasignups.net/21/05/03/michi…

Remember this, from @KatherineEban?

Well, that eventually led to this, which I've been much-criticized for daring to even track over the past year:

As I said last summer...

...and sure enough, 9 months later, we have this:
nytimes.com/2021/04/14/us/…

...which led to the @NYTimes FINALLY admitting the obvious: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

And so, I've taking it closer to home; I'm tracking vaccination levels at the county level here in Michigan. Here's where things stand today (the 12 counties which voted for Biden actually have 55% of Michigan's population, while the 71 which voted for Trump only have 45%):

Statewide, the Blue counties have vaccinated 10% (3.3 points) more of their residents than the Red counties.

This may not sound *too* dramatic until you realize that the Red counties have *22% more senior citizens per capita*. If anything, they should be way AHEAD so far.

UPDATE: No offense to @JoeKanter, but if he'd been following me for the past year this wouldn't have caught him off guard, which is kind of my point. #JustSaying

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

UPDATE: Gee, imagine that:

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