Thread by @charles_gaba

⚠️ It's Official: Cumulative #COVID19 cases *and* deaths per capita are now higher in Red Counties than in Blue Counties nationally: 1/
acasignups.net/21/01/31/weekl…

Counties w/highest cumul. #COVID19 cases per capita:
1. Crowley County, CO
2. Chattahoochee County, GA
3. Dewey County, SD
4. Lake County, TN
5. Lincoln County, AR
6. Bent County, CO
7. Norton County, KS
8. Bon Homme County, SD
9. Buffalo County, SD
10. Trousdale County, TN
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Fully 30% of Crowley County, CO has now tested positive for #COVID19 over the past year (1,816 out of 6,061 residents.
There's 11 counties where at least 20% of the population has tested positive, and 55 counties where at least 15% has.
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Counties w/highest cumul. #COVID19 *deaths* per capita:
1. Jerauld County, SD
2. Gove County, KS
3. Buffalo County, SD
4. Dickey County, ND
5. Gregory County, SD
6. Grant County, NE
7. Hancock County, GA
8. Iron County, WI
9. Hamlin County, SD
10. Galax, VA
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1 out of every 125 residents of Jerauld County, SD has died (16 out of 2,013).

There's 31 counties where at least 1 out of every 200 residents has died, and 449 counties where at least 1 out of every 400 have.
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--There's now just 64 counties (out of over 3,200 nationally) which haven't reported any #COVID19 deaths. Total population? 264,000 people.

--There's now just 3 counties which haven't reported any COVID-19 cases. Total population? 3,070.
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Finally, here's what I'm talking about at the beginning of this thread. This graph shows the *ratio* of cases & deaths per capita between red & blue counties.

Cumulative case rates are now 9.1% higher & cumulative death rates are now 0.3% higher per capita in the red counties.

Here's how both cases & deaths per capita have spread over time in the Blue & Red counties (defined as counties which voted for Trump or Clinton/Biden by at least 6% or more):

And for anyone getting the vapors over my tracking this along "partisan lines", let me remind you that the Trump Administration DELIBERATELY blew off the pandemic last spring SPECIFICALLY because they assumed it would "only be a Democratic area problem".
acasignups.net/20/08/02/updat…

"How dare you track #COVID19 on a partisan basis! Viruses don't care if you're a Republican or Democrat!"

True. HOWEVER...

https://twitter.com/markmobility/status/1354446373144436736

"How dare you track #COVID19 on a partisan basis! Viruses don't care if you're a Republican or Democrat!"

True. HOWEVER...
statnews.com/2021/01/25/und…

BOTTOM LINE: Partisan lean SHOULDN'T have to be considered when it comes to #COVID19 policy, BUT IT'S DIRECTLY IMPACTING POLICY BECAUSE THE TRUMP ADMIN & THE GOP INSISTED ON POLITICIZING IT ALL LAST YEAR.

That genie can't be put back in the bottle now. "Wearing a Mask" and "Getting Vaccinated" have become “political statements" by the GOP to the point that partisanship has sadly become as vital a data point as age, population density, ethnicity or socioeconomic status.