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LoquatBear t1_iupe9xj wrote

Reply to comment by cypressdwd in The polarization of politics and public opinion and their effects on racial inequality in COVID mortality: evidence suggests that shrinking gap in US COVID-19 racial death disparities driven by political division and increasing total deaths among Whites rather than decreasing deaths among Blacks by Dizzy_Slip

Basically the rate at which Black Americans died from Covid remained consistent across the pandemic.

Instead the rate at which White Americans died from Covid increased, specifically because White Americans who expressed less to no concern about the pandemic ,ie Republicans, were more likely due from Covid from their lack of preventative action and lack of Republican state action.

They conclude that there still was racial disparity between Black Democrats and White Democrats dying from Covid, but polarization of no-concern to high-concern (and extrapolating vaccination, masking, social distancing) was more likely to affect Covid mortality rates than race.

So essentially the Republicans played themselves, and now we have statistical proof.

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