Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Welcome to Red Covid in New York State

 

Currently, the 10 New York counties with the highest number of new Covid cases per 100,000 residents all voted for Trump in the 2020 election.



New York Times, 10/1/2021
More recently, the racial gaps — while still existing — have narrowed. The partisan gap, however, continues to be enormous. A Pew Research Center poll last month found that 86 percent of Democratic voters had received at least one shot, compared with 60 percent of Republican voters. 
The political divide over vaccinations is so large that almost every reliably blue state now has a higher vaccination rate than almost every reliably red state:

Currently, 8 of the 10 counties with the lowest number of new Covid cases per 100,000 residents voted for Biden in the 2020 election.




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Counties at extremely high risk of Covid spread are among the Trumpiest in the state.



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