More than 1 in 3 Americans say they know someone who has been sick from coronavirus

As the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States continues to climb, Americans are three times as likely to know someone in their community who has been sick with the virus than they did in March, according to a new survey. A disparity among racial groups that wasn’t there in March has also appeared.

More than one-third of Americans (36%) say someone they know outside of their immediate family or work has been sick with the coronavirus, according to a new survey from the Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape Project. That number is more than triple the number in mid-March, when it was 11%. CONT.

Rebecca Morin, USA Today

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