1. This is far less important than you think.
2. States like NY, NJ, MI, CT had massive NATURAL IMMUNITY building up all through early 2020...one of the big reasons they are doing better now. That isn't exactly ideal.
If you then add in seasonal variations, the coincidence that vaccines only came in early Spring of 2021 in wide availability skews the data even more.

I'll bet, once you get long term, you will see that most of these differences will washout.
My guess is there will be differences ultimately...mostly based on vaccination rates. And that my give you secondary political differences.

But ignoring 2020's deaths, while basically including immunity created by that early surge, is not helpful.

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