The dots are too scattered to make sense up until the last couple of years and by then the slope is too small to really see. But the lines show a slight increase in COVID rates by immigration rates during the first year, the blue line. The second year, the red one, shows the most pronounced negative relationship, followed by an almost parallel sloping line for the third year. The fourth and fifth years show much lower COVID death rates that slope less, and I don't know if the reason I can see it is I spend so much time looking at scatter plots I don't know if the reason I can see it is because I spend so much time playing with them . Anyway, the slopes, aka regression coefficients, by years are: 2020 = 0.77, 2021 = -1.77, 2022 = -0.75, 2023 = -0.25 and 2024 = -0.16. Yes, all of them after vaccine became available are negative. Now the reason I put this together is in response to someone blaming immigrants for causing our COVID deaths. I actually think most of our contact with germs in the rest of the world is through air planes and just like immigrants, the ones coming from the rest of the world, evein if they are Americans who just spent a little time there, most of them hit coastal states first. The major difference I see is that after COVID vaccines are available, the percent immigrant is negative related to death rates and that may related the the Southern Baptist refusing vaccination and they are home grown not imported.
Here are five years of COVID death rates plotted by state percent foreign immigrants. See text for comments. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Political #Demography
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