Covid-19 has exposed major weaknesses in the United States’ federalist system of public health governance, which divides powers among the federal, state, and local governments. SARS-CoV-2 is exactly the type of infectious disease for which federal public health powers and emergencies were conceived: it is highly transmissible, crosses borders efficiently, […] Read more »
High approval for economic relief package amid concern about job loss
Most Americans continue to express concern about themselves or a household member either losing their job or seeing a reduction in paid work hours in the next few months — or say it has already happened to them. … More people report that they’re being more careful about their behavior […] Read more »
Big Cities Won’t Snap Back to Normal
President Donald Trump’s promise to begin reopening the economy in the coming weeks faces an immovable obstacle: The big cities that drive America’s economic growth and innovation are the same places straining under the heaviest burden of the coronavirus outbreak. The counties confronting the largest number of cases are primarily […] Read more »
Gallup COVID-19 Data Brief No. 2
Gallup has covered a lot of ground this past week in our daily measurement of Americans’ experience of the COVID-19 crisis. Here is what we know as of April 2. CONT. Gallup editors Read more »
Pandemic Pollwatch, April 2: An analysis of global public opinion on COVID-19
… A team of researchers at Oxford University has developed a single metric – a “Stringency Index” – to compare the overall national government responses to the pandemic across different states. The higher the stringency score, the more steps the country has taken across seven policy areas for responding to […] Read more »
Governors win high marks for coronavirus response, outpacing Trump
Americans are giving high marks to their governors as they lead state responses to the exploding coronavirus outbreak that has sickened more than 216,000 people across the country. At the same time, polls show fewer Americans are changing their minds about President Trump, even as he holds daily press briefings […] Read more »