Deseret News Passports in a pandemic Americans were not happy. The new passports were seen as a “symbol of eroding trust between citizens and their government,” writes Craig Robertson, an associate professor of media and communication studies at Northeastern University, in the Smithsonian Magazine.
US split on vaccine passports as country aims for return to normalcy David Lazer, professor of political science at Northeastern University and a researcher with the Covid States Project, said “partisan divides on behaviors and policies have been acute throughout the pandemic”, but Democrats and Republicans are more evenly split on vaccines compared with other policies against Covid-19, like mask-wearing and social distancing.