People in counties in the United States that voted for Donald Trump (Republican) in the 2016 presidential election tended to physically distance 14% less than those in counties that voted for Hillary Clinton (Democrat) from March to May 2020. This study, published in Nature Human Behavior, analyzed daily geotracking data from 15 million smartphones. Anton Gollwitzer and colleagues analyzed daily geotracking data in 3,000 US counties to study whether physical distancing in the first few months of the pandemic differed according to partisan leaning. They measured physical distancing in terms of reduction in general movement and reduction in visiting nonessential services (such as restaurants, salons and clothing stores) compared to the previous year using GPS coordinates.
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Source: Phys.org