Vaccine hesitancy has subsided in the face of the delta surge, with the share of Americans who are disinclined to get a coronavirus shot now just half what it was last January. Support for mask mandates is broad and President Joe Biden’s approval for handling the pandemic has dropped sharply. […] Read more »
As coronavirus fears spike, Biden’s ratings sag and workers split on vaccine mandates
The delta variant’s two-month surge has generated a sharp rise in public fears about contracting the coronavirus, undermined confidence in President Biden’s leadership and renewed divisions over vaccine and mask mandates, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. Nearly half of Americans, 47 percent, rate their risk of getting sick […] Read more »
Despite divides, Covid-19 vaccines are now as popular as Christmas trees
The American landscape is filled with divisive issues that split the country down the middle. But while a sizable portion of American adults remain unvaccinated, we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the campaign to vaccinate Americans against Covid-19 has increasingly overcome the typical political divide. Three-quarters of American […] Read more »
Vaccine Hesitancy May Be Weakening
… Vaccine hesitancy still holds at around one in five American adults. But, among these Americans, the most resistant of all are now at 14%, down from 18% in late June. Progress is slow, but the wheels are turning. … Our polling with Axios finds that the unvaccinated are now […] Read more »
It’s Still All About COVID
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been watching focus groups. Two of those groups included independent-leaning voters who don’t align themselves strongly with either party. One other group was comprised of so-called Democratic “surge” voters; people who vote infrequently or only in presidential elections. In other words, these are […] Read more »
Update: American Public Opinion and Vaccination Requirements
Majorities of Americans now favor requiring people to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to travel by airplane, stay in a hotel, attend events with large crowds, dine in a restaurant and go to their office or work site. … One of the predictable, but important, divisions in opinions on vaccination […] Read more »