The Coronavirus, not the beer

Frankly it’s amazing all these politicians who got it horribly wrong the entire Covid period are still in office . Bass, whitmer , newsom, Hochul etc… I guess Lightfoot got the boot for a guy as bad or worse.

Glasses of water ….
 
I had a brother who died (before I was born) from whooping cough at age 2. I'm glad the pertussis vaccines have greatly reduced such deaths.

Btw infants under 6 months generally are not fully vaccinated for pertussis because it takes time for their immune system to fully respond to a regimen of vaccines. For protection, they rely on herd immunity from older children being vaccinated.
 
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I had a brother who died (before I was born) from whooping cough at age 2. I'm glad the pertussis vaccines have greatly reduced such deaths.

Btw infants under 6 months generally are not fully vaccinated for pertussis because it takes time for their immune system to fully respond to a regimen of vaccines. For protection, they rely on herd immunity from older children being vaccinated.
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Sorry to hear that - Must be an odd feeling growing up thinking about what relationship could have been .

Lost my mother at a very early age but at least I have some semblance of a memory for her.

Again, sorry for yours and the families loss.
 
thethe said:
Sorry to hear that - Must be an odd feeling growing up thinking about what relationship could have been .

Lost my mother at a very early age but at least I have some semblance of a memory for her.

Again, sorry for yours and the families loss.
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appreciate it
 
ginnyhogan_

10h

I heard a MAHA woman complain that most of the vaccines for babies were

for diseases she’d never even heard of.

Yeah do you know why you haven’t heard of them

I find the absence of a question mark pertinent
 
what happened to mortality rates in red states versus blue states during covid?

ChatGPT said:​

Here’s a summary of what the research shows about mortality (and excess mortality) for the Red states versus Blue states during the COVID‑19 pandemic in the U.S., followed by key caveats (since this is a somewhat messy field).

✅ What the evidence shows​

Higher death rates in Red-voting areas​

  • A study found that counties won by Donald Trump in 2020 had a COVID-19 death rate of ~326 per 100,000 compared to ~258 per 100,000 in counties won by Joe Biden. Pew Research Center
  • An ABC News analysis found that in the post-vaccine era (that is, after adult vaccines were available), death rates in “Red states” were around 38% higher than in “Blue states.” ABC News
  • A regression-analysis article (via PMC) concluded that in 2021 red states had higher COVID-19 infection and death rates compared to blue states; it also found that red states adopted fewer mitigation measures (mask mandates, lockdown days) and that vaccination played a larger role in reducing deaths in blue states. PMC
  • A study looking at excess deaths (in two states) found that after vaccines were widely available, the excess death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than among Democratic voters. JAMA Network
  • A research brief reported that mortality among White persons in red states increased more between 2020 and 2021 (by ~70%) than in blue states. Maxwell School

Timing and policy linkages​

  • Earlier in the pandemic (spring/early summer 2020) some red-led states had lower per-capita death rates, but from around July 2020 onward the pattern flipped: red-led states began to show higher death rates than blue-led states. PMC
  • The link between partisan affiliation (or state political alignment) and mortality is stronger where vaccination uptake was lower and mitigation-policies (mandates, mask/wear, lockdown/closures) were fewer.
 
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