Ebola is very much on the minds of Americans, as 8 in 10 Americans believe someone new will be diagnosed with the disease in the coming weeks. But there is overwhelming confidence in the federal government’s ability to prevent a nationwide epidemic, a new CNN/ORC International Poll shows. CONT. Mark […] Read more »
Fear-Mongering with Polls on Ebola
Recent polls have arrived at starkly different conclusions about the level of fear among Americans over the Ebola virus. The ABC News/Washington Post poll suggests “broad worries” of an Ebola outbreak in the United States, with more than four in ten Americans personally worried about catching the disease, while a […] Read more »
Americans’ Confidence in Government to Handle Ebola Drops
Americans are no more worried about getting Ebola now than they were two weeks ago, but they have become somewhat less confident in the federal government’s ability to deal with an outbreak of the virus. Fifty-two percent of Americans are now very or somewhat confident in the government’s ability to […] Read more »
Ebola Worries Rise, But Most Are ‘Fairly’ Confident in Government, Hospitals to Deal With Disease
Public concern about the spread of the Ebola virus in the U.S. has increased since early October. Currently, 41% are worried that they themselves or someone in their family will be exposed to the virus, including 17% who say they are very worried. In a survey two weeks ago, 32% […] Read more »
Ebola Debuts on Americans’ List of Top U.S. Problems
As the quarantine period ends for people exposed to the first person in the U.S. to be diagnosed with Ebola, the virus for the first time ranks among the top 10 issues Americans consider to be the most important ones facing the country. However, Ebola still ranks behind five other […] Read more »
Fear of Ebola Closes Schools and Shapes Politics
In the month since a Liberian man infected with Ebola traveled to Dallas, where he later died, the nation has marinated in a murky soup of understandable concern, wild misinformation, political opportunism and garden-variety panic. … The panic in some way mirrors what followed the anthrax attacks of 2001 and […] Read more »