Americans Reflect on Nation’s COVID-19 Response

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Americans Reflect on Nation’s COVID-19 Response

Majority of Americans say the country has given too little priority to the needs of K-12 students

Majority of Republicans say country has given too little priority to respecting individuals’ choices during the coronavirus outbreak

55% say vaccination is extremely or very effective at limiting coronavirus spread

Declining share views the coronavirus as a major threat to public health

About half say public health officials have done an excellent or good job responding to outbreak

Republicans offer much lower ratings of public health officials than Democrats

Younger adults are less confident that U.S. health care system could handle a future global health emergency

Majority of Americans view vaccination as extremely or very effective at limiting the spread of coronavirus

Wide partisan gap over how effective mask wearing is at limiting the spread of the coronavirus

Most Americans say treatments for people with the coronavirus have gotten better

About seven-in-ten U.S. adults say they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19

Groups in U.S. with relatively higher, and lower, rates of vaccination against COVID-19

Younger Americans more likely to say they have had COVID-19

Younger people, those with higher incomes more likely to have taken at-home coronavirus tests

Majority who took an at-home coronavirus test did so in response to symptoms

Americans less concerned about getting a serious case of COVID-19 than earlier in the outbreak

American Trends Panel recruitment surveys

Invitation and reminder dates

Weighting dimensions

Margins of error

Response rates

Republicans and Democrats offer differing assessments of country’s response to COVID-19

Majority of Americans think the country has moved past the worst of the coronavirus outbreak

Declining share of Americans see the coronavirus outbreak as a major threat to their personal health

Fewer than half now view the coronavirus as a major threat to public health

Across racial and ethnic groups, most in U.S. say someone they know has been hospitalized or died from coronavirus

Public gives high marks to local hospitals and medical centers’ response to the coronavirus outbreak

Demographics of COVID-19 vaccination status among all U.S. adults and within the Republican and Democratic Party

White evangelical Protestants less likely than other religious groups to have received a COVID-19 vaccine

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