Amid controversies around the COVID-19 vaccine and growing distrust of public health authorities, more than four in ten Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, and a third of parents, now say they oppose requiring children in public schools to receive some childhood vaccines, up since 2019, a new KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor […] Read more »
One in Four Workers Still Fear Catching COVID-19 at Work
U.S. workers’ fear of contracting COVID-19 on the job has waned over the course of the pandemic, but a certain amount of unease persists. About one in four employed adults still say they are “very” (6%) or “moderately” (20%) concerned about being exposed to the coronavirus at work, while a […] Read more »
Worry About Catching COVID-19 Lowest Since June 2021
Twenty-eight percent of Americans say they are “very” or “somewhat worried” they will get COVID-19 — the lowest percentage Gallup has recorded since the summer of 2021. The latest findings, collected in Gallup’s Oct. 11-19 COVID-19 probability-based web panel survey, come as a new high of Americans say they believe […] Read more »
‘Channeling the Mama Bear’: How Covid Closures Became Today’s Curriculum Wars
Debates over what children are reading and learning in school, and who gets to decide, have divided school board and other state and local races nationwide. But most Americans, and especially parents of school-aged children, are satisfied with their local schools, found a new survey by Morning Consult for The […] Read more »
Pandemic Outlook Recovers as U.S. Leaders’ Messaging Falters
About two-thirds of Americans believe the COVID-19 situation in the U.S. is getting better, and 44% — a new high — now say the pandemic is over. Both readings are up by double digits since July when optimism was waning amid rising cases. … Americans in all party groups have […] Read more »
Annenberg Debuts Science and Public Health Knowledge Monitor
The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania is launching a science and health knowledge monitor comprising quarterly survey reports to track national levels of health knowledge and misinformation over time. Building on the Annenberg Science Knowledge (ASK) surveys which since 2016 have been focused on health knowledge […] Read more »