Two recently posted Harvard Pop Center working papers by Nancy Krieger, PhD, and her colleagues document COVID-19 cases and deaths from July 1 – September 15, 2021, spotlighting greater risk in Republican-leaning counties (particularly when coupled with higher poverty levels), and in those regions of the country with greater inequities.
Two working papers document COVID-19 stats in light of county-level political lean and regional inequities
![Map of United States counties during 2020 election](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/wp-content/uploads/sites/2623/2021/10/United-States-counties-during-2020-election.jpg)