Roughly two-thirds of the Americans who have died from COVID-19 over the course of this pandemic passed away since election day, 2020.

And if you want to know which areas of the country were hit the hardest, in both last winter's surge in cases and the onset of the Delta variant this summer, all you have to do is check which way a county or city voted in the Trump-Biden campaign.

It's more evidence in how politicized and partisan this pandemic has become:  counties with the highest death rates tended to have the lowest vaccination rates--which tended to vote for former President Trump.

Dr. Irwin Redlener directs the Pandemic Resource & Response Initiative & is a professor of health policy management at Columbia University Medical Center​​

Roughly two-thirds of the Americans who have died from COVID-19 over the course of this pandemic passed away since election day, 2020.
And if you want to know which areas of the country were hit the hardest, in both last winter's surge in cases and the onset of the Delta variant this summer, all you have to do is check which way a county or city voted in the Trump-Biden campaign.
It's more evidence in how politicized and partisan this pandemic has become: &nbsp;counties with the highest death rates tended to have the lowest vaccination rates--which tended to vote for former President Trump.
Dr. Irwin Redlener directs the Pandemic Resource &amp; Response Initiative &amp; is a professor of health policy management at Columbia University Medical Center​​

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