A field hospital tent outside the emergency room at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, Jan. 6, 2021. California and Los Angeles have been at the center of the recent U.S. outbreak, with the number of infections and deaths spiking.
The response of U.S. states to the Chinese Communist virus (Wuhan pneumonia) pandemic appears to be split along partisan lines, with the death rate from infection in Democratic areas three times higher than in Republican areas, according to one statistical analysis.
As of Wednesday (Jan. 27), U.S. counties that voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election reported 39 deaths per 100,000 residents from the Chinese Communist virus, according to a Reuters survey of population and public health data. In contrast, counties that voted for Republican Donald Trump in the same year had only 13 deaths per 100,000 people from the virus.
This imbalanced mortality rate from the Epidemic reflects the fact that the CCP virus suffered disproportionately from the epidemic in cities like New York that voted Democratic at high densities, while rural areas and remote suburbs that supported Republicans were not so directly affected.
This pattern of impact was also true outside of New York, the center of the U.S. epidemic. In 36 of the 50 states, Democratic counties have higher reported death rates than Republican counties.
In Maryland, the disease has killed more than 2,000 people, and the death rate in the Democratic suburbs of Washington is four times higher than in conservative Appalachian panhandle counties.
In Kansas, where the disease has killed 152 people, the death rate in the two pro-Hillary Clinton counties is seven times higher than in the rest of the state.
But there are some exceptions.
Republican counties in Delaware, Nebraska and South Dakota, which have reported more prominent death rates, have had multiple confirmed outbreaks in meatpacking plants in those areas. However, although outbreaks in Republican counties in Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Texas were more severely affected, mortality rates in these locations remained well below the national average.
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