As the coronavirus pandemic drags on into year two and U.S. eligibility for vaccines rises, a new Fox News poll finds one in five registered voters plan to skip the shot. The survey, released Sunday, shows that while 7 in 10 voters have either already received a vaccine (58 percent) […] Read more »
Cuomo’s Approval Rating Has Fallen. He Could Still Win Re-Election.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has not had much good news over the past few months. His poll numbers have not been much of an exception. A new Siena College poll this week found that Mr. Cuomo’s ratings had fallen to the lowest level of his tenure, with […] Read more »
What The Chauvin Trial Verdict Tells Us
… The verdict was guilty on all counts. A very extraordinary story, a killer cop convicted; paired with an all too ordinary story, an unarmed Black man killed. The bipartisan consensus that Chauvin was guilty is another extraordinary result. But, that does not mean that we as a nation are […] Read more »
Religious Identities and the Race Against the Virus
As the U.S. navigates evolving dynamics related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and access, there has been a dearth of hard data to understand the cultural dynamics of this problem, and even less rigorous data available to understand how faith-based interventions might mitigate vaccine hesitancy and resistance. The PRRI–IFYC Religion and […] Read more »
One-third of Asian Americans fear threats, physical attacks and most say violence against them is rising
Amid widespread reports of discrimination and violence against Asian Americans during the coronavirus outbreak, 32% of Asian adults say they have feared someone might threaten or physically attack them – a greater share than other racial or ethnic groups. The vast majority of Asian adults (81%) also say violence against […] Read more »
How to convince Republicans to get vaccinated
… Some groups with initial vaccine hesitancy — such as Black Americans and Latinos — have shown clear declines in hesitancy as vaccination rates have increased. But partisan identity is now the biggest predictor of vaccine hesitancy — 44% of Republicans say they do not intend to get vaccinated while […] Read more »