The Politicization of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Science Communication

We discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has become politicized, with one group tending to vote liberal and trust science, and another group tending to vote conservative and be suspicious of scientific experts. This polarization is an unfortunate fact of Western society, and the way scientific communication is sometimes presented could potentially exacerbate this siloing effect.

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