The evolving roles of US political partisanship and social vulnerability in the COVID-19 pandemic from February 2020-February 2021.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has had intense, heterogeneous impacts on different communities and geographies in the United States. We explore county-level associations between COVID-19 attributed deaths and social, demographic, vulnerability, and political variables to develop a better understanding of the evolving roles these variables have played in relation to mortality. We focus on the role of political variables, as captured by support for either the Republican or Democratic presidential candidates in the 2020 elections and the stringency of state-wide governor mandates, during three non-overlapping time periods between February 2020 and February 2021. We find that during the first three months of the pandemic, Democratic-leaning and internationally-connected urban counties were affected. Du

SUBMITTER: Kaashoek J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021880 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature