Assessments of the economy have plummeted, and many are concerned about a potential job loss, but most Americans are optimistic about the economy’s ability to rebound in the future. Now, just over a quarter of Americans say the economy is in good shape, a drop of 32 points from December […] Read more »
Americans Step Up Their Social Distancing Even Further
Americans this past weekend stepped up their already considerable efforts to engage in social distancing in response to the novel coronavirus. Seventy-two percent of U.S. adults now say they are avoiding public places like stores and restaurants, well ahead of the 54% reporting this last week. Nearly as many (68%) […] Read more »
The Uncertainty of Our New Normal: A Data Dump
… We should expect significant behavioral change as the COVID-19 reality modifies our data-to-day lives. To capture this, we partnered with Axios and published our first installment of the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus poll on Wednesday this week. This will be our baseline to gauge behavioral change (companies, people, and governments) going […] Read more »
Americans Rapidly Answering the Call to Isolate, Prepare
In the span of a week, Americans have gone from tepid adoption of social distancing to majorities engaging in nearly every major practice advocated by government and health officials as ways to contain community spread of the novel coronavirus. But there is a long way to go to approach full […] Read more »
Pandemic Pollwatch: An analysis of global public opinion on COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic is a world-wide phenomenon that has galvanized global attention and made an impression on public thinking in virtually every country. This paper is the first in a series from GQR that will attempt to summarize and analyze what is known about global opinion on COVID-19. This paper […] Read more »
Fortune poll: 63% of Americans worry they won’t be able to pay their bills during the coronavirus crisis
The number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. is growing at a rapid pace, and the fallout is spilling over into everyday life in a way not seen in generations. To get a sense of how the coronavirus outbreak and its economic shocks are impacting households, Fortune and SurveyMonkey polled […] Read more »