![]() “The public health community can't give up on the hard work of trying to continue to make progress with those who are unvaccinated - hard as it is, intractable as many of those individuals appear to be at this point,” said Schwartz. The findings should also serve as a rallying cry for public health professionals to continue their push to make sure people are vaccinated to protect themselves from the ongoing threat of COVID-19, Schwartz said. “Those individuals remain at dramatically increased risk of severe outcomes, including death.” “Even as we continue to hear and talk a lot about booster campaigns, the updated booster, and trying to reach folks with their third or fourth or fifth dose, there are still over 70 million Americans who have yet to receive even their first dose of a COVID vaccine, who have rejected it all this time,” Schwartz said. Schwartz said the findings amplify the critical importance of vaccines. ![]() The findings have been reported extensively in national media including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NBC News. The study’s findings were recently released as a working paper by the researchers in collaboration with the National Bureau of Economic Research. “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,” the authors said in the study. After COVID-19 vaccines became widely available, the excess death rate gap between Republicans and Democrats widened from 1.6 percentage points to 10.4 percentage points. The study found that overall, the excess death rate for Republican voters was 5.4 percentage points, or 76%, higher than the excess death rate for Democratic voters. The authors estimated excess death rates as the percentage increase in deaths above expected deaths due to seasonality, geographic location, party affiliation, and age. Schwartz, associate professor of public health (health policy) and Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, assistant professor at the Yale School of Management conducted the research using a novel linkage of political party affiliation and mortality data to assess whether there were differences in COVID-19 excess death rates between Republican and Democratic voters. Jacob Wallace, assistant professor of public health (health policy) Jason L. The discrepancy didn’t exist prior to the vaccines. states had more excess deaths than Democratic voters after vaccines for COVID-19 became widely available to counter the disease. ![]() A team of Yale researchers has found that Republican voters in two U.S.
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