# Is it true that Republican voters are dying of COVID at 5X the rate as Democrats, as claimed by Neil deGrasse Tyson?

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> [@Velocity](#):
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> his analysis seems extremely lazy and rife with bad assumptions.

Yeah, this basically seems to be Tyson’s MO these days, which is odd, given his reputation. Here’s a [random collection](http://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com/2016/01/fact-checking-neil-degrasse-tyson.html) of his fuck-ups. More aren’t hard to find.

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