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 »
The Share Of U.S. Adults Willing To Get Vaccinated Ticks Up
The share of adults saying “no” to getting the COVID-19 vaccine dropped 5 percentage points in a month, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll conducted after the Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to Pfizer’s vaccine. The survey, which was in the field from Aug. 26 through Tuesday, […] Read more »
4 takeaways about Americans’ COVID views at summer’s end
It feels like we’ve been here before. New COVID-19 infections have hit another peak, health care systems are overwhelmed by severe cases, one more school year is starting without having the pandemic under control. But unlike previous surges, the nation has access to three effective vaccines and hundreds of millions […] Read more »