Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisans. Gadarian, Goodman, Pepinsky**

Pandemic PoliticsThe Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID\nAuthor(s): Shana Kushner Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, Thomas B. Pepinsky\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691218991, 978-0691218991\nSynopsis\nHow the politicization of the pandemic endangers our livesand our democracy\n\nCOVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in American history, but the scale and grim human toll of the pandemic were not inevitable. Pandemic Politics examines how Donald Trump politicized COVID-19, shedding new light on how his administration tied the pandemic to the presidents political fate in an election year and chose partisanship over public health, with disastrous consequences for all of us.\n\nHealth is not an inherently polarizing issue, but the Trump administrations partisan response to COVID-19 led ordinary citizens to prioritize what was good for their team rather th.