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Tue Aug 31 11:11:30 +0000 2021

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

@Chuck_Huber Thanks for asking. Twitter, of course, does not lend itself to full citations. I derived the number from published COVID-19 death rates of unvaccinated people (about 1,000 per day). And from the polls that show 25% of Republican voters are unvaccinated, versus 5% of Democrats. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 31, 2021

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In case anyone is curious… Right now in the USA, every ten days, more than 8,000 (unvaccinated) Republican voters are dying of COVID-19. That’s 5X the rate for Democrats. https://t.co/vhf2PNhKV7 — PolitiTweet.org

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Very glad to hear. Happy to have helped tip the scales. But people shouldn’t get vaccinated because “Tyson said so." They should get vaccinated because of evidence that it’s effective & safe. Or maybe school needs to spend more time on what science is and how and why it works. — PolitiTweet.org

Michele Weinstat Miller (also Michele W. Miller) @MicheleWMiller_

@neiltyson I want to thank you because an anti-vaxxer friend who admires you has decided to get vaccinated after yo… https://t.co/o98oWCIFRO

Posted Aug. 31, 2021

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