The death gap between Democrats and Republicans was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates.

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    It’s probably worse than we know because many states covered up Covid deaths. Politicians and hospitals didn’t want it to look like they were failing. Suspiciously, other causes of death (like pneumonia or heart disease) mysteriously spiked during the pandemic.

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      Florida did accounting trickery to try and downplay Covid deaths. If the persons primary residence was outside Florida they wouldn’t add it to the Covid totals. Then they tried to punish the health department workers who blew the whistle.

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      Excess mortality’s hard to cover up.

      I mean, unless the right wants to pretend those people are still alive.