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# Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates
- URL: https://werd.io/pro-trump-counties-now-have-far-higher-covid-death-rates/
- Published: 2021-12-05T18:37:04.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-05T18:37:04.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

“Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden. That's according to a new analysis by NPR that examines how political polarization and misinformation are driving a significant share of the deaths in the pandemic.”

\[[Link](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate?utm%5Fcampaign=npr&utm%5Fterm=nprnews&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR1oab5El5asG4w4upPit3TiuwJmMZ-IucPeCbAfm6s5uiM6J0driIpaQoA)\]