“Why did COVID-19 become partisan?” 

Shana Kushner Gadarian, associate professor of political science in the Maxwell School, was interviewed for the CBS Sunday Morning piece “Why did COVID-19 become partisan?” During the pandemic, Gadarian worked with colleagues to survey American attitudes towards COVID-19. The team found that “the biggest divider in people’s behaviors was not their age, not their demographics, not their education; it was their partisanship,” in relation to mask-wearing and other COVID-19 safety precautions.