How Trump damaged science — and why it could take decades to recover (original) (raw)

People packed in by the thousands, many dressed in red, white and blue and carrying signs reading “Four more years” and “Make America Great Again”. They came out during a global pandemic to make a statement, and that’s precisely why they assembled shoulder-to-shoulder without masks in a windowless warehouse, creating an ideal environment for the coronavirus to spread.

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Nature 586, 190-194 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02800-9

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