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This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science.

I'm Christopher Intagata. The night of September 11th, President George W Bush addressed the nation.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings,

but they cannot touch the foundation of America.

The next day Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a Democrat, said Congress stood united behind the President in condemning the attacks.

The world should know that the members of both parties in both houses stand united in this.

There was a lot of inter-party unity right after 9-11.

The messages that the public was receiving were not inherently politicized. And there

was a moment in which that could have happened around COVID and to my surprise it didn't.

Skyler Cranmer is a political scientist at the Ohio State University.

His team analyzed tens of thousands of tweets sent out by members of Congress.

The idea being to determine how and when COVID-19 became a politically

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