People in Republican-voting states more likely to report Covid-19 vaccine side effects, study says Elizabeth Cooney By Elizabeth Cooney March 29, 2024

https://www.statnews.com/2024/03/29/republican-democrat-covid-19-vaccine-side-effects-study/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=300634896&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--cE_6lGF8yyupsGbHo3vixkBPmHm_pFgebyWM9TL_YbZ_6vkmnxliyy0PbfSfxsmy_U8wJcdm7ti6SfYXaah8Xq3yMWA&utm_content=300634896&utm_source=hs_email Covid-19 side effect reports mirror red-blue state divide, study finds Here’s more evidence of the red-blue divide among Americans. People in Republican-voting states were more likely to report adverse events after receiving a Covid-19 vaccination than people living in Democratic-leaning states, a new analysis in JAMA Network Open finds, suggesting that how people view their post-vaccine side effects or decide whether to report them may be shaped by their political views. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2816958?utm_term=032924&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_medium=referral&_hsmi=300634896&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_M5PkqKl9lg5oXfE3mudRyUVmccuED62Mv91oFJtjy0yAUH1fRczD7r87T3hgoP1uxdI0fvJ4TJEBFBtyMOUNw8t_eMA&utm_source=For_The_Media There’s precedent. More people died of Covid-19 in states where more voters registered as Republicans and voted that way. Counties in Donald Trump’s column in 2020 were much less likely to get Covid vaccinations than counties that voted for President Biden. “The anti-vaccine movement might have started out along libertarian lines like, ‘Let’s not have compulsory vaccination,’ but it gradually moved into thinking that either the vaccines weren’t effective or that they were unsafe,” study author David Asch told STAT’s Elizabeth Cooney. Read more. Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the COVID-19 Pandemic Jacob Wallace, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham & Jason L. Schwartz https://www.nber.org/papers/w30512?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=300634896&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9OzJ964_qtMTZhLfKf_MrL7nAt_yRYBtPvtIa3e26qLnZi9sDHabCenXBPOrFuEf_1XUmMflfVN2LM4VTlvmyRK0HpEw&utm_content=300634896&utm_source=hs_email