πŸ“£ NEW: @DLeonhardt of the NY Times cited my work which concluded that the death rate in the highest Trump-voting counties is several times higher than in the lowest Trump counties.

I just posted a new analysis which brings this data up to date:
acasignups.net/21/09/27/time-…
According to the latest vaccination, case & death rate data from the CDC, state health depts & John Hopkins University tracker, as of yesterday... 2/
--The vaxx rate in the reddest tenth of the U.S. is currently 38% lower than in the bluest tenth.

--The COVID case rate since 6/30/21 in the reddest tenth is 3.1x higher than in the bluest tenth

--The COVID death rate since 6/30/21 in the reddest tenth is 5.5x higher.
It's important to keep in mind:

--This disparity could easily change one way or the other as time goes on; for all we know, blue counties could be back to seeing higher case/death rates in a few months.

--This only shows WHERE more are getting sick/dying, not WHO they are.
Also note that there are some vaccinated people, positive cases and fatalities which aren't included in any of these data because the county of residence is unknown (plus, Nebraska county-level death data since June is unknown)

Finally, this doesn't include U.S. territories.

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More from @charles_gaba

21 Sep
Holy crap. Mari Manoogian is my state representative.
Yesterday GOP MI state rep Steve Marino claimed innocence. Today the personal protection order against him includes threatening texts he sent her including wanting her car to blow up.
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20 Sep
🚨 NEW: The CDC has updated their COVID Community Profile Report w/Florida's weekly *county-level* death breakout. This allows me to update the bar graph w/the death rate since June by Trump 2020 vote for 99.4% of the U.S. population (50 states + DC only) in two different ways.
🚨 If you go by flat 10-point election increments, the death rate since 6/30/21 in the reddest/Trumpiest counties are over NINE TIMES HIGHER than in the bluest counties.
🚨 However, only 116K people live in the former & just 1.7M live in the latter, so I've also run it a second way.

If you break the population into 10 brackets of ~33.1 million apiece from blue to red, the death rate for the Trumpiest 10% is *still* 5.1x higher:
Read 12 tweets
19 Sep
And once again: No, insurance carriers can’t raise premiums on unvaccinated folks and no, it’s not a good idea to change that.
Here’s a refresher: acasignups.net/21/08/04/there…
HAVING SAID THAT, there's nothing stopping *employers* from increasing the contribution level of their employees towards their premiums, which is what Delta is doing.

Also, as @ErinBurnett notes in the original tweet, COVID patients *are* being charged a ton in other ways now.
Read 4 tweets
19 Sep
CMS reminds people on unemployment they can STILL #GetCovered in a FREE #SecretPlatinum plan this year via HC.gov! acasignups.net/21/09/17/cms-r…
I can't begin to tell you what a #BigFrigginDeal this is if you don't have healthcare coverage and received unemployment benefits for even a single week in 2021. You can STILL enroll in practically FREE coverage for the rest of this year.
Premiums: $0 (that's right...FREE.)
Deductible: A few hundred bucks at most
Other Out of Pocket expenses: A few hundred bucks at most.

As long as all services are in network, you're limited to extremely low out of pocket expenses.
Read 4 tweets
19 Sep
🧡 THREAD: If I'm reading the @uscensusbureau's data correctly, White (alone) people now make up 61.2% of the total U.S. population. 1/
According to @CDCgov data, assuming I'm reading it correctly, it looks like "Non-Hispanic Whites" also make up almost exactly 61.2% of all COVID deaths to date.

"But wait! I thought COVID was killing Black, Hispanic, etc. people at a disproportionately higher rate!" 2/
Well, that WAS true for most of the pandemic to date...but (again assuming I'm reading the CDC data correctly), it looks like that has changed over time.

From the beginning of 2020 up through Election Day, it looks like only 54.4% of all COVID deaths were among White people. 3/ Image
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18 Sep
THREAD:
Good grief. I do not envy the @uscensusbureau their task when it comes to categorizing people into different racial demographics. 1/
On the surface, it seems simple enough: They have 6 different racial (not ethnic) categories:

--White
--Black/AA
--Am. Indian/AK Native
--Asian
--Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
--Other

However, then we get into "2 or more races" and things get...complicated. 2/
--White + Black/AA
--White + Am. Indian/AK Native
(etc)
--Black + Am. Indian/AK Native
--Black + Asian
(etc)

...and they even go into 3+, 4+, 5+ and finally have a column for someone claiming to be *all 6*. 3/
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