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Not sure if this has been mentioned or not;

Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the COVID-19 Pandemic

https://www.nber.org/papers/w30512

Political affiliation has emerged as a potential risk factor for COVID-19, amid evidence that Republican-leaning counties have had higher COVID-19 death rates than Democrat- leaning counties and evidence of a link between political party affiliation and vaccination views. This study constructs an individual-level dataset with political affiliation and excess death rates during the COVID-19 pandemic via a linkage of 2017 voter registration in Ohio and Florida to mortality data from 2018 to 2021. We estimate substantially higher excess death rates for registered Republicans when compared to registered Democrats, with almost all of the difference concentrated in the period after vaccines were widely available in our study states. Overall, the excess death rate for Republicans was 5.4 percentage points (pp), or 76%, higher than the excess death rate for Democrats. Post- vaccines, the excess death rate gap between Republicans and Democrats widened from 1.6 pp (22% of the Democrat excess death rate) to 10.4 pp (153% of the Democrat excess death rate). The gap in excess death rates between Republicans and Democrats is concentrated in counties with low vaccination rates and only materializes after vaccines became widely available.
 
Have no fear! Marjorie Taylor Greene has been named to Congressional committee to investigate Covid.
 
beast crnjo said:
I got covid again. Felt a bit off for a day but was fine the next. I'm glad i have an immune system undamaged by the fauci ouchi. Sucks for the dozens of people with less healthy immune systems than me that I exposed to it, but what’s a ideologue like me to do?
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FIFY
 
yankeesince59 said:
Not sure if this has been mentioned or not;

Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the COVID-19 Pandemic

https://www.nber.org/papers/w30512

Political affiliation has emerged as a potential risk factor for COVID-19, amid evidence that Republican-leaning counties have had higher COVID-19 death rates than Democrat- leaning counties and evidence of a link between political party affiliation and vaccination views. This study constructs an individual-level dataset with political affiliation and excess death rates during the COVID-19 pandemic via a linkage of 2017 voter registration in Ohio and Florida to mortality data from 2018 to 2021. We estimate substantially higher excess death rates for registered Republicans when compared to registered Democrats, with almost all of the difference concentrated in the period after vaccines were widely available in our study states. Overall, the excess death rate for Republicans was 5.4 percentage points (pp), or 76%, higher than the excess death rate for Democrats. Post- vaccines, the excess death rate gap between Republicans and Democrats widened from 1.6 pp (22% of the Democrat excess death rate) to 10.4 pp (153% of the Democrat excess death rate). The gap in excess death rates between Republicans and Democrats is concentrated in counties with low vaccination rates and only materializes after vaccines became widely available.
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Is there any area where Dems out death repubs?
 
Shogun X said:
I personally never got the "updated" booster. I did the previous Pfizer series + a booster.

All of the vaccines were under an emergency use authorization and the numbers are down and even Biden said the "emergency" is over.

Also, the uptake of the bivalent booster was very low. Masks were discontinued overall and restrictions were lifted, and there hasn't been a significant surge in COVID deaths/hospitalizations. Also, the length of the effectiveness of the booster being 4-6 months.

All played a factor in my decision.
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Covid is still going around, there is just not the mass testing and fear porn.
 
Made sense until kale. A lot of Americans never touch kale. It's called vaccines, public health, and public works like water systems. Things like school lunch programs help. Until Republicans get rid of them.
 
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What is the motivation for developing them if they are free?
 
tlongII said:
What is the motivation for developing them if they are free?
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23 January 1923 – "insulin belongs to the world"
On 23 January 1923, Banting, Collip and Best were awarded U.S. patents on insulin and the method used to make it. They all sold these patents to the University of Toronto for $1 each. Banting famously said, “Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world.” He wanted everyone who needed it to have access to it.

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/researc... discovered by Sir,purified by James B Collip.
 
tlongII said:
What is the motivation for developing them if they are free?
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The people who are best at what they do typically love doing it.

Incentives are currently most aligned with keeping people just healthy enough to take prescriptions as long as possible, while spending as much as possible on those prescriptions.

With taxpayer funded "free" at point of use healthcare the incentives would align best with keeping people as healthy as possible for as long as possible.

Many of the world's biggest breakthroughs have been made by taxpayer funded research.
 
Phatguysrule said:
The people who are best at what they do typically love doing it.

Incentives are currently most aligned with keeping people just healthy enough to take prescriptions as long as possible, while spending as much as possible on those prescriptions.

With taxpayer funded "free" at point of use healthcare the incentives would align best with keeping people as healthy as possible for as long as possible.

Many of the world's biggest breakthroughs have been made by taxpayer funded research.
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To add to your point: the reason that drug companies require large profits is that the upfront cost to develop a drug is very high, and the failure rate is very high.

It's a very risky business venture. So the rewards have to be great in order to incentivize companies and investors to do it.

That doesn't apply to the scientists themselves, who can be adequately incentivized the same way most employees are - salary and benefits, promotions, a bit of storage closet sex at the office xmas party...

barfo
 
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