In which I get a nice shoutout from @DLeonhardt in his updated look at the COVID red/blue divide:
nytimes.com/2021/11/08/bri…
nytimes.com/2021/11/08/bri…
FWIW, I’m just waiting on Florida county data to be released later this morning before posting the latest red/blue divide update (I have every other state updated already). Stay tuned…
📣 NOW LIVE: Here's an updated look at county-level #COVID19 case & death rates by partisan lean & vaccination rates:
acasignups.net/21/11/08/weekl…
acasignups.net/21/11/08/weekl…
As I speculated about at the time, the red/blue COVID divide seems to have peaked around 2 weeks ago (case rates since June were 3x higher in the reddest tenth of the country; death rates 6x higher), but both seem to have started to shrink since then (at least for the now).
AS OF 11/07/21, the COVID case rate since June in the reddest tenth of the U.S. was running 2.9x higher than in the bluest tenth, while the death rate since June was running 5.8x higher.
HOWEVER, the *nonpartisan* view of the same data based on *vaccination rates* is showing just as stark a division. The case rate since June is still over 2.2x higher in the least-vaxxed tenth than the most-vaxxed tenth, while the death rate is now running 4.4x higher.
Here's the death rates since June on a nonpartisan graph (based on vaxx rates) side by side with the partisan graph (based on Trump 2020 vote %).
Almost a perfect mirror...except the latter measure is even MORE stark:
Almost a perfect mirror...except the latter measure is even MORE stark:
THEY'RE ON TO US.
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