Die politische Polarisation in den USA während der Covid-19 war 12-mal höher als in früheren Krankheitsausbrüchen in Bezug auf die Zögern des Impfstoffs. Untersuchungen, die auch nach Anpassung an eine steigende politische Trennung im Laufe der Zeit festgestellt wurden
Polarization around vaccine hesitancy was 12 times greater than past outbreaks, study finds
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Political polarization during COVID-19 was 12 times greater than in past disease outbreaks in terms of vaccine hesitancy, according to a comprehensive new study by Caitlin McMurtry, an assistant professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
In addition, polarization was five times greater around concern about infection, the study found.
The research, published in the American Journal of Public Health, analyzes nearly seven decades of archival survey data, going back to polio in 1954. It highlights how partisanship can shape risk perceptions, compliance with preventive measures and vaccine uptake during health crises.
“Our findings indicate that political polarization during COVID-19 was about five times greater than in any other disease outbreak for which we have public opinion data regarding concern about infection and more than 12 times greater regarding vaccine hesitancy,” McMurtry said.
High levels of polarization continue to linger, suggesting reversal may be difficult.
“Polarization during COVID-19 was considerably more extreme than in past outbreaks, representing a discrete jump in polarization that cannot be explained by gradual partisan separation over time,” she said.
[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/epdf/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308226](https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/epdf/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308226)
Unfortunately, because the pandemic was weaponized, as well as politicized.
There may be no coming back from stupid .
I don’t think it was so much the vaccines rather than the mandates to take them.
This published article turned out to be very prescient
[https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/5/e008684](https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/5/e008684)
* Mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policies have been used around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic to increase vaccination rates. But these policies have provoked considerable social and political resistance, suggesting that they have unintended harmful consequences and may not be ethical, scientifically justified, and effective.
government overreach during that time was unprecedented and downright scary
It’s the internet, the algorithms it uses, the malign interests that exploit it, and the mindless results of its monetization through parsing.
So unnecessary and mostly the fault of one man
The second the president downplayed the severity of the pandemic for political reasons it snowballed from there.
Science, medicine, and public safety should be the easiest bi-partisan issue to agree on. Facts are facts.
The biggest issue is now a good part of the population doesn’t know how to weigh evidence. If a billion studies say X, but you find one that says Y. That doesn’t mean you found proof of your misconceptions, it means that 1 study is probably crap.
It breaks my heart that people who dedicated their lives to medicine and public safety have been vilified and suffered such vitriolic nonsense.
Thank you Dr. Fauci. This internet person appreciates everything you and your staff did for us.
I can agree with this. I was working remotely, nice sure, but trying to give covid 19 test results to a bunch of people that were convinced the government was trying to steal their identity by asking them to verify their ssn. The exact reason I will not work on phones ever again.
This seems a bit like a study on the wetness of water, no?
It had nothing to do, of course, with it being a brand new type of vaccine that was rushed through testing.
Covid was truly the break in reality for us. It clearly sifted out people who do believe in science and material reality and those who exist in far right fantasy
The inability to admit that any part of the authoritarian policies which were rolled out to address the pandemic were wrong, questionable, or actually added to the death toll…is a pretty big contributing factor to the division.
Because it was the biggest one in the social media generation.
Crazy that slavery didn’t break the country, but asking people to wash their hands and wear a mask has