President Biden has earned high marks for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but the government’s effort to vaccinate as many Americans as possible continues to face hurdles, including resistance among people who identify as Republicans, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. … Today, more than 6 in 10 […] Read more »
Vaccine-hesitant Americans reject delta variant risk, posing questions for pandemic recovery
Vaccine-hesitant Americans overwhelmingly reject the reported risks of the coronavirus delta variant, posing questions for the nation’s pandemic recovery on a Fourth of July the Biden administration has marked as a turning point in the nation’s long public health ordeal. Three in 10 adults in the latest ABC News/Washington Post […] Read more »
Hope For Normalcy Is Growing. Here’s What Americans Are Still Worried About
Normal is not easily defined. The past 15 months, though, have certainly been anything but. Americans are starting to believe a “sense of normal” is approaching fairly soon, however, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey. The poll also found that with the coronavirus receding in this country, mask-wearing is […] Read more »
Half of U.S. fears another COVID wave even as optimism grows
Even as more Americans seem optimistic that life is returning to normal, half of U.S. adults are worried that another surge of COVID-19 infections could threaten the country, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. With states dropping pandemic restrictions and the most transmissible coronavirus variant so far on the […] Read more »
Workers Are More Likely to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine When Their Employers Encourage It and Provide Paid Sick Leave
As more employers return to in-person work, the latest KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor report shows that workers are more likely to have gotten a COVID-19 vaccine when their employer encourages it or provides paid sick leave to get the vaccine and recover from side effects. About two-thirds of workers report […] Read more »
Americans aware of Delta coronavirus variant, but re-emergence continues
As the Delta variant continues to spread across the globe and, now, in parts of the United States, the latest Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index shows that a large majority have heard of the newer strain, even if they are not very familiar. While most of those aware report being at least […] Read more »