… 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 »
Growing Share of Americans Say They Plan To Get a COVID-19 Vaccine – or Already Have
More than a year after the coronavirus first arrived in the United States, there are signs of growing public dissatisfaction with the country’s response. Performance ratings for how top health and state and local officials have responded to the outbreak continue to decline. And there’s less consensus than there was […] Read more »
Optimism About COVID-19 Situation Reaches New High
One year after the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of the U.S., Americans have become markedly more upbeat in their views of the trajectory of the situation, and their worries about access to testing and medical supplies and services have eased. At the same time, Americans’ reports of the extent to […] Read more »
NPR/Ipsos Poll: Nearly One-Third Of Parents May Stick With Remote Learning
One year after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered classrooms around the country and the world, U.S. parents are guardedly optimistic about the academic and social development of their children, an NPR/Ipsos poll finds. But 62% of parents say their child’s education has been disrupted. And more than 4 out of 5 […] Read more »