All else equal that’s a reasonable claim for sure, and I don’t recall any report saying otherwise.
Then there are statistics, linked earlier in this thread, showing as a percentage that Republican (Trump) voting counties usually have a higher mortality rate from COVID, sometimes much higher.
Even mtrot agreed that vaccination rate is low in such counties, which, not incidentally, is strongly correlated with mortality rate and serious illness.
So in this we are in agreement.
Lol, you just had to throw Trump in there, parenthetically to Republican! Yes, we know Trump is a Republican.
I have little doubt that rural, conservative leaning areas had a higher percentage wise rate of severe illness and death than more suburban areas with higher vaccination rates. Although it now is obvious that these shots do not prevent contracting covid or the transmission of covid the current variants, they clearly significantly reduce the risk of severe illness or death from covid. It is regrettable that there was so much misinformation out there by people suggesting that covid was "the flu" or a "sniffle", which led many dangerously vulnerable people to choose not to get the shot. I've argued, to little avail, with these people on many comment boards.
The latest trend is to blame the death of every single person who experiences a sudden death, of most any type, on the covid shots. It's as if there were never sudden cardiac deaths or strokes before the covid shots. Of course, these days, we have the media doing a story on every young athlete or entertainer who is found dead at home or in their hotel room, usually because acute alcohol and/or opiod overdose. But, no, it couldn't be those things that caused the death, it had to have been the "clot shot". Even when a 60 year old has a fatal heart attack, it is automatically assumed that it was because of the shot.
Now, since myocarditis is a known possible adverse reaction to the mRNA shots, mostly in young males, I do think sudden deaths in such individuals should be investigated to see if there is any evidence that the shots may have played a role. Of course, these deaths can be caused by other causes, such as undiagnosed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or chronic essential hypertension.