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Re:AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them... by parineum on Saturday July 31, 2021 @04:08AM (#28016331)
I'm in California and I have the same experience as you but the data nationally shows otherwise.
Re:AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them... by johnisgood on Saturday July 31, 2021 @04:53AM (#28016522)
Which one? I'm looking at https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/the-red-blue-divide-in-covi... at the moment.

July 6 - 46.7% Biden, 35.0% Trump.

This is reported by the way, right?

Re:AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them... by parineum on Saturday July 31, 2021 @03:55PM (#28021085)
Doesn't that confirm what I said? That's, in Biden counties, 46.7% of people are vaccinated and in Trump counties, 35% of people are vaccinated.

Those numbers are vaccination rates in red vs. blue counties where the blue counties have higher rates than the red counties.

That interpretation is supported by the way the article is framing the data in the conclusion.

> Although there has been an overall significant slow-down in COVID-19 vaccination rates in the U.S., these findings show a widening divide of communities at risk for COVID-19 along partisan lines. A key component of any effort to boost vaccination rates among Republicans will be...

Re:AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them... by snovv_crash on Saturday July 31, 2021 @06:26AM (#28016889)
That's also a correlation of a correlation, which can be extremely misleading. It might be, for example, that Biden supporters in Trump-dominated districts are less likely to get vaccines.