“Perceptions about Covid-19 weren’t too divided by political party very early on in the pandemic,” Vox reports.
“The US began to walk a different path once then-President Donald Trump downplayed the coronavirus — deliberately, as he later revealed — and Republican leaders and the rank and file followed his lead. Whether you took the pandemic seriously very quickly became another way to affiliate with red or blue teams, leading some to do things more dangerous for their own well-being just because of their political party affiliation.”
Said political scientist Shana Gadarian: “Partisanship is now the strongest and most consistent divider in health behaviors.”
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