Analysis: Republicans pushed for an end to the pandemic emergency despite how the pandemic disproportionately hurt red states.
into law, formalizing the end to the national emergency declaration his predecessor had made three years prior. But the move was spurred by House Republicans who had at times campaigned on the need to formally shut down the government’s pandemic response. H.J. Res. 7 was introduced by Rep. Paul A. Gosar , whose political identity centers far more around his embrace of fringe-right rhetoric than his assiduously formulated policy proposals.
At the end of the year, vaccines became available. For the first four months of 2021, state vaccination rates surged upward fairly evenly. By April, though, a gap started to emerge. After older Americans had been vaccinated, rates increased faster in Democratic-voting states. Then, that summer, the delta variant of the virus ravaged the Sun Belt. You can see the result below; red states saw a huge surge in deaths in mid-2021 that wasn’t matched in blue ones.
You can see how red states took over the states with the highest per capita death tolls in 2021. After the initial surge in deaths in the Northeast, the 10 states with the worst death tolls were evenly divided between red and blue. After the vaccines became available, though, strongly pro-Trump states made up most of the 10 hardest-hit states.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the death toll in Trump-voting states has been 358 per 100,000 residents, 11 percent higher than the per capita toll in Biden-voting states. Trump-voting states made up 19 of the 20 states with the lowest vaccination rates in mid-July 2021. Biden-voting states made up all of the 20 states with the highest vaccination rates. Since July 2021, the per capita death toll has been 35 percent higher in red states.
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