The belief that politics drive scientific research & its impact on COVID-19 risk assessment

• Danielle M. McLaughlin ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mclaugdi@mail.uc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Political Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2409-1248

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• Jack Mewhirter,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Political Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Rebecca Sanders

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Political Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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