There’s a reason for that. I’ll bet you can guess!
COVID-19 is killing more Republicans than Democrats, according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The study…used voter registration and death records to answer a question: is there a link between political affiliation and rates of COVID related death in the U.S.?
The short answer is yes. “In 2018 and the early parts of 2020, excess death rates for Republicans and Democrats are similar, and centered around zero,” the study said. “Both groups experienced a similar large spike in excess deaths in the winter of 2020-2021. However, in the summer of 2021—after vaccines were widely available—the Republican excess death rate rose to nearly double that of Democrats, and this gap widened further in the winter of 2021.”
The study attributes this to the vaccine uptake disparity between Republicans and Democrats, which has been widely documented as more Republicans refused to take the vaccine; the most vocal anti-vax voices were Republican politicians and some conservative news outlets…
Sometimes you get what you deserve. Especially when good sense and an understanding of medical science are both rejected.
Eideard 
Fox commentator melts down over vaccinations — saying she’s going to be sent to a concentration ‘camp’ https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/fox-commentator-melts-down-over-vaccinations-%E2%80%94-saying-shes-going-to-be-sent-to-a-concentration-camp/ar-AA14CDMD?li=BBnbfcL
Rollback of covid vaccine mandate met with furor at Pentagon
Military officials warned that the Republican-led initiative risks harming troops’ readiness and endangering national security https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/07/covid-vaccine-mandate-pentagon/
Republicans — leading the potential reversal — threatened to block an $858 billion spending bill if the mandate was not removed.
“Covid spreads and medical staff sicken after China relaxes restrictions” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/12/china-covid-rules-loosened-winter-wave/
US COVID death toll would be 4X higher without vaccines, modeling study finds https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/us-covid-death-toll-would-be-4x-higher-without-vaccines-modeling-study-finds/
DeSantis targets Covid vaccine manufacturers and CDC in latest anti-vaccine moves https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/desantis-covid-vaccine-manufacturers/index.html
On Wednesday, a week after leaders eased the country’s restrictive Covid policy, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) gave up trying to keep track of all the new Covid cases, announcing it would no longer include asymptomatic infections in its daily count. It had previously reported these cases, albeit in a separate category from “confirmed,” or symptomatic ones.
“It is impossible to accurately grasp the actual number of asymptomatic infections,” the NHC said in a notice, citing reduced levels of official testing.