CBS News
“Why did COVID-19 become partisan?”Â
Sunday, September 13, 2020,
By Lily Datz
Shana Kushner Gadarian, associate professor of political science in the Maxwell School, was interviewed for the CBS Sunday Morning piece “” 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.