[ONLINE] - Book Talk - Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID

Health is not an inherently polarizing issue, yet the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing partisan divides in the United States, and opened new ones. Quarantining, masking, social distancing, and vaccines emerged as new axes of conflict. Some of these divides will persist and evolve long after the pandemic recedes, in attitudes of trust or mistrust of public health and research institutions, media, and bureaucracy, as well as our sense of responsibility to care for one another, or our resistance to that idea. 

In Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID, political scientists Shana Kushner Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, and Thomas Pepinsky take the first comprehensive look at how former president Donald Trump and other political actors weaponized COVID-19, and the troubling implications of their actions for public health and the health of American democracy. 

Join New America’s Political Reform program on Tuesday, November 1 for a conversation about Pandemic Politics and COVID’s ongoing role in our democracy. Speakers will include Kushner Gadarian, Apoorva Mandavilli, and Ashley Kirzinger.

Speakers:

Shana Kushner Gadarian, @sgadarian
Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking and Chair Department of Political Science, Syracuse University

Ashley Kirzinger, @AshleyKirzinger
Associate Director for Public Opinion and Survey Research, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Apoorva Mandavilli, @apoorva_nyc
Science and Global Health Reporter, New York Times

Mark Schmitt, @mschmitt9 (moderator)
Director, Political Reform program, New America

Copies of Pandemic Politics are available for purchase here through our bookselling partner Solid State Books.