Co-author of Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID. Shana Gadarian, professor and chair of the political science department at Syracuse University. Olivia Troye, former homeland security, counterterrorism and coronavirus advisor for Vice President Mike Pence. Today, On Point: How the politicization of COVID endangered our lives and democracy. “It turns out that partisanship just swamped everything else as early as March of 2020," Shana Gadarian says. To how that shaped Americans’ response to the pandemic: "I knew having seen patterns of behavior in the past on other topics and issues that I had lived in throughout the Trump administration, I knew where this was going and it was not going to be good," Olivia Troye says. The federal COVID-19 public health emergency is coming to an end today.īut as we look back at the three-plus years of the pandemic, did we miss the opportunity to best protect our country?įrom the underselling of COVID’s danger from the top: Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) Trump ordered the suspension of evictions and mortgage foreclosures for six weeks as part of the government effort to ease the economic pain from the coronavirus pandemic. President Donald Trump takes a question during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at the White House on March 18, 2020, in Washington, DC.
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