U.S. Covid deaths and infections varied almost 4-fold across the 50 states --study.

Study: US COVID-19 Outcomes Tied to State Characteristics and Policies Numbers of deaths and infections from COVID-19 varied up to almost 4-fold across the 50 states, even when factors like age and comorbidities were taken into account, according to an analysis of outcomes between January 1, 2020, and July 31, 2022. JAMA_current

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The highest burdens of deaths and infections clustered in states with lower education, higher poverty, less access to quality health care, and lower levels of interpersonal trust. This set of traits, in turn, tended to exist in areas where larger proportions of the population identified as Black or Hispanic, and in states where the majority voted Republican in 2020’s presidential election, the researchers reported in The Lancet.

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