Recent rise in COVID-19 cases has been mostly in states Trump won in 2016

essentialsaltes said:

October 8
TN
ND
FL
SC
SD (up 1)
AR (down 1)
MS
RI
AL
WY (up 2)
UT
LA (down 2)
AK (jumps onto list)
KY (down 1)
IA

Alabama is the 4th state to reach 3,000 deaths per million.

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essentialsaltes said:

And deaths, obviously.

Vaccine alters California’s coronavirus path: Urban areas improve, while rural parts suffer

Residents in rural California counties with low vaccination rates died from COVID-19 at significantly higher rates during the summer Delta coronavirus variant surge than those in better-vaccinated regions such as the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California, a Los Angeles Times data analysis has found.

By far, rural Northern California and the San Joaquin Valley have had the lowest rates of vaccination: Only 44% of residents of all ages are fully vaccinated in the north, and 45% are vaccinated in California’s agricultural center.

Both regions have also reported some of the state’s highest rates of COVID-19 deaths for the summer. For every 100,000 residents who live in each region, 33 died of COVID-19 this summer in rural Northern California, as did 22 in the San Joaquin Valley.

By contrast, 13 in Southern California [58%] died this summer, and 7 in the Bay Area [70%]

This is a huge contrast to last winter, when the dense areas of Southern California were hit worst.

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essentialsaltes said:

And deaths, obviously.

Vaccine alters California’s coronavirus path: Urban areas improve, while rural parts suffer

Residents in rural California counties with low vaccination rates died from COVID-19 at significantly higher rates during the summer Delta coronavirus variant surge than those in better-vaccinated regions such as the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California, a Los Angeles Times data analysis has found.

By far, rural Northern California and the San Joaquin Valley have had the lowest rates of vaccination: Only 44% of residents of all ages are fully vaccinated in the north, and 45% are vaccinated in California’s agricultural center.

Both regions have also reported some of the state’s highest rates of COVID-19 deaths for the summer. For every 100,000 residents who live in each region, 33 died of COVID-19 this summer in rural Northern California, as did 22 in the San Joaquin Valley.

By contrast, 13 in Southern California [58%] died this summer, and 7 in the Bay Area [70%]

This is a huge contrast to last winter, when the dense areas of Southern California were hit worst.

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Whyayeman said:

The US pattern of unvaccinated patients occupying the great majority of covid beds is repeated in the British National Health Service, despite most (86%) of the population being fully vaccinated.

The resistance to vaccination is baffling. It is as obvious as looking both ways before crossing the street.

Oh, perhaps I should not have mentioned that. There will be a conspiracy theory about it coming along any moment now!

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Vylo said:

Florida is doing it's best effort to make the top 5, despite a decent vaccination rate, where it's unvaccinated seem to be very...enthusiastic.

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essentialsaltes said:

Red America is now dying from COVID-19 at a clearly higher rate than blue America
By the end of 2020, there was no discernible difference between the rate of people who died of COVID-19 from areas that voted for President Biden and those who voted for former President Donald Trump — but "then the vaccines arrived," and "they proved so powerful, and the partisan attitudes toward them so different, that a gap in COVID's death toll quickly emerged," David Leonhardt writes in Monday's New York Times. And now, "the gap in COVID's death toll between red and blue America has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point."

Residents of heavily Trump counties were more than three times likelier to die from COVID in October than those in heavily Biden countries — 25 per 100,000 versus 7.8 per 100,000 — Leonhardt reports. "Some conservative writers have tried to claim that the gap may stem from regional differences in weather or age, but those arguments fall apart under scrutiny." In fact, he argues, the "straightforward" explanation is that "the vaccines are remarkably effective at preventing severe COVID, and almost 40 percent of Republican adults remain unvaccinated, compared with about 10 percent of Democratic adults."

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