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If true, the Trump anti-vaxxers were not only literally killing themselves, but killing the success of the Republican Party in elections to follow. The researchers didn\u2019t limit their study to those data sources above, but included other sources, such as the Social Security Administration and funeral homes.<\/p>\n

The researchers discovered that death rates from COVID-19 among registered Republicans and Democrats were the same from early 2020, when those death rates began, until the summer of 2021, when the vaccines were available. From then on the death rates spiked upwards among Republicans compared to Democrats.<\/p>\n

Republicans kept being against social distancing, wearing masks, and even taking COVID-19 vaccines offered by Pfizer and Moderna, whereas Democrats did not. President Trump had been for a while an instigator of this opposition until he finally got the vaccine himself. Yet even after that it took him a while to advocate for getting vaccine.<\/p>\n

The researchers admit that their study has some flaws. But they don\u2019t seem to me to detract from their conclusions much. For example, they were only able to get voter registration data from two state: Ohio and Florida, though these are quite populous.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"