President Joe Biden retains broad support for his coronavirus response, though the country appears to be wary of aggressively loosening restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the virus, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll. On the cusp of scoring his first major legislative achievement, more than two-thirds of […] Read more »
Data shows the costs of year-long economic shutdown
This coming week marks one year since the word “lockdown” started to become synonymous with Covid-19 in 2020. As events and sports seasons and, ultimately, work in offices were suspended and postponed, the scale of the pandemic became clear. The numbers around the virus today tell the story of a […] Read more »
With No Votes to Spare, Biden Gets a Win Obama and Clinton Would Have Envied
The Senate just passed the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill—one of the biggest emergency spending packages in history, targeted to the poor and the middle class. But despite full Democratic control of Congress and the White House, it came with significant omissions from the wish list of Democratic priorities: no […] Read more »
Amount of people hesitant to get Covid-19 vaccine dropping rapidly
… Recent polling suggests a continued drop in the vaccine hesitant population as more and more people get vaccinated in the US. The past two weeks alone, there were two polls that show just how much vaccine hesitancy has declined. The Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 55% of adults […] Read more »
The Complexity of Vaccine Hesitancy
… This week, Derek Thompson of The Atlantic explained to Bob that we cannot lump all the people wary of the shots into one category. Instead, the resistance is more a Venn diagram, with different groups coming to the same conclusion with very different reasons. And to reach herd immunity, […] Read more »
The Future of Health Policy in a Partisan United States: Insights From Public Opinion Polls
… Over time, the voting patterns of elected officials have tipped more closely to the views of people who identify with their own political party than those of the public as a whole, emphasizing the importance of analyzing policy preferences by party. … What is not often recognized is how […] Read more »