Those certificates can come days or weeks after the deaths — deaths that are reported by counties and states in near real time. But it was only more recently that red counties began seeing the majority of cases (a function of the red state cases until then being centered in blue counties). Since Sept. 5, most new cases in the nation have been in red counties. ADADThis doesn’t mean that the deaths were all among Trump supporters, any more than the deaths in New York were necessarily among Democrats. Over the course of Ingraham’s hour-long programs on Wednesday and Thursday, we can estimate that 25 people in red counties (1/24th of the daily total) died on each night.

Source: Washington Post October 30, 2020 15:14 UTC