With the trucks rolling and the first government-authorized coronavirus vaccine making its way to all 50 states, a strong majority of Americans are inclined to get the vaccine but are divided over exactly when, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Monday finds. More than eight in 10 Americans say they […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Voters say US failed to take coronavirus threat seriously enough
As the first U.S. coronavirus inoculations take place, a majority thinks the country failed to take the virus seriously enough — and fewer than one in five says the virus is under control. In addition, the number planning to get vaccinated is up to 61 percent. That’s according to the […] Read more »
How more Americans are willing to get the coronavirus vaccine
… The effort to vaccinate Americans to prevent them from getting the coronavirus will be a complicated effort. There will need to be enough vaccines, a plan to get Americans those vaccines and, finally, Americans willing to take them. The first two parts of that equation are largely out of […] Read more »
Eleven-Country Survey: Americans with Lower Income Are the Sickest, Most Likely to Struggle to Afford Care
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the globe, new findings from the 2020 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey show that Americans with lower income face more severe health and financial hardships compared to their counterparts in other wealthy countries. … Fielded between February and May 2020, during the […] Read more »
Many remain doubtful about getting COVID-19 vaccine
With multiple vaccines undergoing review for emergency use authorization, just 47% of Americans plan to get inoculated against coronavirus when a vaccine becomes available. Twenty-six percent do not plan to vaccinate, and 27% are unsure. An AP-NORC survey conducted in May found nearly the same results. Few Americans are very […] Read more »
Americans want more COVID-19 economic relief. Most think Congress should compromise
Two-thirds of Americans say the federal government has not done enough to ease the economic hardships brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. … A majority of Americans — 61 percent — also said they would get vaccinated against the coronavirus, up from 49 […] Read more »