Study cites partisanship as one of the main factors in COVID-19 vaccination rates nationwide
Although public figures stressed the pandemic should not be treated as a political football, it is difficult to ignore a simple truth. Health issues have become increasingly politicized.
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(LEX 18) â Although public figures stressed the pandemic should not be treated as a political football, it is difficult to ignore a simple truth. Health issues have become increasingly politicized.
A recent study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that one of the main factors driving differences in COVID-19 vaccination rates across the country is partisanship.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was part of the rising chorus on Tuesday, stressing the need for unvaccinated Americans to receive coronavirus shots and warning that the country could reverse its progress in moving on from the pandemic.
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Republican lawmakers have dropped a provision in the forthcoming infrastructure bill providing increased funding to the IRS to enforce the tax code on the wealthy and corporations.
Truthout reported that the previous version of the package included a proposal to give the IRS an additional $80bn in funding specifically to target wealthy and corporate tax dodgers. That funding was expected to increase US coffers - meant to pay for the infrastructure bill s projects - by an estimated $700bn over 10 years.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to speak with the press after a GOP policy luncheon, on Capitol Hill i on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) July 20, 2021 - 7:21 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) â Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell implored unvaccinated Americans Tuesday to take the COVID-19 shot, issuing a stark and grave warning of a repeat of last year s rising caseloads and shutdowns if people refuse to protect themselves from the coronavirus.
McConnell urged Americans to ignore the âdemonstrably bad adviceâ coming from pundits and others against the vaccines. As cases skyrocket, he noted that nearly all the new virus hospitalizations in the U.S. are among people who have not been vaccinated. skyrocket