Pro-Trump counties continue to suffer far higher COVID death tolls

People who identify with the political right are less likely to be vaccinated and more likely to believe misinformation about vaccines. (Ted S. Warren/AP)

Even with widely available vaccines and newly effective treatments, residents of counties that went heavily for Donald Trump in the last presidential election are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than those that live in areas that went for President Biden. That's according to a newly-updated analysis from NPR, examining how partisanship and misinformation are shaping the pandemic.

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