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Podcast: The Truth of the Matter
Episode: Cary Funk, Pew Research Center: āIt Can Be Confusingā
Description: In this crossover episode with theĀ CSIS Coronavirus Crisis Update Podcast,Ā we asked Cary Funk, Pew Research Center, to make sense of how the pandemic has impacted our society and American opinion as we approach the pandemicās two years. āIt can be confusing.ā Polarization now increasingly aligns between the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated, versus simple partisan identity. At the fundamental level, Americans are split over whether Covid-19 is a common problem. Does the āBig Lieā bleed over into the field of public health? āItās all complicated.ā āThe political lensā increasingly encompasses so much of public health, accelerating the erosion of public...