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Relationship of political ideology of US federal and state elected officials and key COVID pandemic outcomes following vaccine rollout to adults: April 2021–March 2022 by Nancy Krieger; Christian Testa; Jarvis T. Chen; William P. Hanage; Alecia J. McGregor is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Summary ## Background Scant research, including in the United States, has quantified relationships between the political ideologies of elected representatives and COVID-19 outcomes among their constituents. ## Methods We analyzed observational cross-sectional data on COVID-19 mortality rates (age-standardized) and stress on hospital intensive care unit (ICU) capacity for all 435 US Congressional Districts (CDs) in a period of adult vaccine availability (April 2021–March 2022). Political metrics comprised: (1) ideological scores based on each US Representative's and Senator's concurrent overall voting record and their specific COVID-19 votes, and (2) state trifectas (Governor, State House, and State Senate under the same political party control). Analyses controlled for CD social metrics, population density, vaccination rates, the prevalence of diabetes and obesity, and voter political lean. ## Findings During the study period, the higher the exposure to conservatism across several political metrics, the higher the COVID-19 age-standardized mortality rates, even after taking into account the CD's social characteristics; similar patterns occurred for stress on hospital ICU capacit
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- Author
- Nancy Krieger; Christian Testa; Jarvis T. Chen; William P. Hanage; Alecia J. McGregor
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)