With the Rise of New Omicron Variant, Where Do Republicans and Democrats Stand?

Shana Kushner Gadarian, associate professor of political science in the Maxwell School, was quoted in The Christian Science Monitor piece “As US faces new COVID variant, calls for patience and prudence.”

Gadarian discusses the newest COVID-19 variant, omicron, and whether or not this new variant should be cause for concern. She discussed topics from the book she co-wrote, “Pandemic Politics: How COVID-19 Revealed the Depths of Partisan Polarization.” She said, “There are these big gaps between Republicans and Democrats that we see in our survey data very early on in March 2020, and which don’t go away over time as the virus starts to move across the country. Those patterns have locked in. Democrats very early on were in line with public health officials.”