Republican mistrust in healthcare widens US health gap, study finds (opens in new tab)

Covers Since the 2010s, American conservatives increasingly experience worse health outcomes and higher mortality than liberals

Republicans increasingly avoid doctors and vaccines, widening health gaps with Democrats, researchers sayGrowing Republican mistrust in the Neil O’Brian, a political science professor at the University of Carolina, Chapel Hill and one of the authors published in Nature Human Behaviour, said that his team saw two phases to the phenomenon.

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