Americans’ attitudes toward coronavirus restrictions have varied across the political spectrum, and a recent analysis indicates liberal areas were more affected by the virus than …
Americans’ attitudes toward coronavirus restrictions have varied across the political spectrum, and a recent analysis indicates liberal areas were more affected by the virus than conservatives ones.
A Reuters analysis found that Democratic areas experienced three times the number of coronavirus-related deaths that Republican areas did. Counties that voted for 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reported 39 coronavirus deaths per 100,000 residents. Counties that voted for Republican Donald Trump, on the other hand, had 13 deaths per 100,000 people.
The death rate in Washington state is four times higher than in the conservative counties in the Appalachian panhandle, the analysis also found. The two counties in Kansas that backed Clinton in 2016 had a death rate seven times higher than the rest of the state, according to Reuters.
