COVID Personal Precautions on the Decline

Public concern about the coronavirus continues to decrease. Worries over infection remained at the same rate as February, after decreasing from the month prior, and Americans are taking fewer personal precautions than they were earlier in the year. Vaccinated adults remain more concerned and are taking more precautions than their unvaccinated peers.

Just 25% of Americans are extremely or very worried about themselves or a family member being infected with COVID-19, while 43% are not at all or not too worried. This is similar to a month ago and down from 36% who were worried in January during a spike of cases due to the omicron variant. CONTINUED

AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research


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