Lessons from the pandemic: what happens when you politicize a virus

IMAGE: Wallace, J., P. Goldsmith-Pinkham and J.L. Schwartz

A fascinating study carried out by three Yale professors, Jacob Wallace, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and Jason L. Schwartz, entitled “Excess death rate for Republicans and Democrats during the COVID-19 pandemic”, and published by the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), proves, through time-series analysis, the relationship between the excess mortality that…