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Nov 24, 2021, 7 tweets

Here's the post @jonathanweisman references in his @NYTimes piece, thanks! acasignups.net/21/11/22/weekl…

As noted, COVID case rates since June are running 2.8x higher in the reddest tenth of the country than the bluest tenth, with a steady progression up the scale in between:

COVID *death* rates since June are running over 5.6x higher in the reddest tenth than the bluest tenth...again, with a fairly steady progression up the scale in between:

For a *nonpartisan* view, this is the more important graph to use: COVID deaths since June are 4.1x higher in the least-vaccinated tenth of the country than the most-vaccinated tenth...and if you take Miami-Dade out of the equation (special case), it's a whopping 6.0x higher:

⚠️ Here again is how *cumulative* COVID death rates have increased at the county level along 2020 partisan lines starting from 3/15/20 - 11/15/21:
acasignups.net/21/11/17/red-s…

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