Associations Between Governor Political Affiliation and COVID-19 Cases, Deaths, and Testing in the U.S.

Neelon, Brian; Mutiso, Fedelis; Mueller, Noel T.; Pearce, John L.; Benjamin‐Neelon, Sara E.

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2021.01.034

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“…In a study of cell phone mobility, Democratic counties were found to be more adherent to governors’ Twitter calls for social distancing compared to Republican counties—regardless of the political affiliation of the governor [ 11 ]. During the second half of 2020 (covering the time period this paper’s research was conducted), preliminary data suggests that the political affiliation of a state’s governor may impact COVID-19 cases and death rates, with Republican-led states harder hit than states led by Democrats [ 12 ].…”

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How Social Media Comments Inform the Promotion of Mask-Wearing and Other COVID-19 Prevention Strategies

Keller

Honea

Ollivant

2021

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Current COVID-19 messaging efforts by public health departments are primarily informational in nature and assume that audiences will make rational choices in compliance, contradicting extensive research indicating that individuals make lifestyle choices based on emotional, social, and impulsive factors. To complement the current model, audience barriers to prevention need to be better understood. A content analysis of news source comments in response to daily COVID-19 reports was conducted in Montana, one of the states expressing resistance to routine prevention efforts. A total of 615 Facebook comments drawn from Montana news sources were analyzed using the Persuasive Health Message Framework to identify perceived barriers and benefits of mask-wearing. A majority (63%) of comments expressed barriers, the most common of which were categorized as either misinformation about the virus or conspiracy theories. Benefits (46%) of mask-wearing were articulated as benefits to loved ones or people in one’s community or saving hospital space. This paper analyzes the implications of low perceived threat accompanied by low perceived efficacy of mask-wearing to make recommendations for future prevention efforts.

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confidence: 99%

How Social Media Comments Inform the Promotion of Mask-Wearing and Other COVID-19 Prevention Strategies

Keller

Honea

Ollivant

2021

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“…In this sense this research constitutes additional evidence, complementary to Neelon et al (2), about the importance of ideology and partisanship in the way the US faced and managed the Covid-19 outbreak. Declining pollutant levels also have other major effects on people's health.…”

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confidence: 52%

“…The impact of Covid-19 has been anything but random, however, affecting different social groups differently (1). In the United States, political ideology has clashed with the fight against the pandemic (2). During the outbreak of the pandemic, President Donald Trump's denial prevailed over the WHO warnings and scientists who warned of the seriousness of the situation (3).…”

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Ideology, policy decision-making and environmental impact in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic in the US

Prieto‐Rodríguez

Salas

Noonan

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Covid-19 pandemic was a challenge for the health systems of many countries. It altered people's way of life and shocked the world economy. In the United States, political ideology has clashed with the fight against the pandemic. President Trump's denial prevailed despite the warnings from the WHO and scientists who alerted of the seriousness of the situation. Despite this, some state governments did not remain passive in the absence of federal government measures, and passed laws restricting mobility (lockdowns). Consequently, the political polarity was accentuated. On the one hand, the defenders of more severe public health measures and, on the other, the advocates of individual rights and freedom above any other consideration. In this study, we analyze whether political partisanship and the political ideology has influenced the way Covid-19 was handled at the outbreak. Specifically, we analyze by using a Diff-in-Diff model, whether the ideology of each state, measure at three levels, affected the decrease in the NO2 levels observed after the pandemic outbreak in the US. We distinguish three alternative post-Covid periods and results show that the State ideology has a robust negative impact on the NO2 levels. There is an important difference between Democratic and Republican states, not just in the scope and following-up of the mobility and activity restrictions, but also in the speed they implemented them.

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“…Additionally, we adjusted for potential confounding factors in each county, including healthcare and testing rates (Wu et al, 2020), pre-existing chronic diseases (Townsend et al, 2020), and socioeconomic and demographic (Abedi et al, 2020;Clouston et al, 2021;Karaye & Horney, 2020), political (Neelon et al, 2021), behavioral (Badr et al, 2020;McGrail et al, 2020), and environmental (Chakrabarty et al, 2021; factors.…”

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Green spaces, especially forest, linked to lower SARS-CoV-2 infection rates: A one-year nationwide study

Jiang

Yang

Chen

et al. 2021

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This study examined the associations between green spaces and one–years' worth of SARS–CoV–2 infection rates across all 3,108 counties in the contiguous United States after controlling for multiple categories of confounding factors. We found green spaces at the county level have a significant negative association with infection rates. Among all types of green spaces, forest yields the most consistent and strongest negative association. Sensitivity analyses confirmed the negative association of forest across five urbanicity levels, and the strength of the association increases as disease incidence increases across five time periods. Although forest located in moderately urbanized counties yields the strongest association, the negative pattern of significant associations holds across all five urbanicity levels. A population–weighted analysis revealed that proximity to forest within a moderate walking distance (≤ 1.0–1.4 km) may provide the greatest protection against the risk of infection.

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Associations Between Governor Political Affiliation and COVID-19 Cases, Deaths, and Testing in the U.S.

Cited by 87 publications

References 20 publications

How Social Media Comments Inform the Promotion of Mask-Wearing and Other COVID-19 Prevention Strategies

How Social Media Comments Inform the Promotion of Mask-Wearing and Other COVID-19 Prevention Strategies

Ideology, policy decision-making and environmental impact in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic in the US

Green spaces, especially forest, linked to lower SARS-CoV-2 infection rates: A one-year nationwide study

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