How Pew Research Center is covering COVID-19
We’re committed to informing the public with facts about the far-reaching impact that this global pandemic is having on our society.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, a nearly continuous stream of information has flooded news headlines, personal conversations and social media feeds with possible causes, treatments and endings for the outbreak – some with more truth behind them than others. Fact checkers themselves have struggled to keep pace. One way to gauge the impact […]
As evidenced in the mix of sources Americans rely on for news, the coronavirus outbreak is touching people’s lives both nationally and closer to home. A majority of U.S. adults (61%) say they are giving about equal attention to both national and state and local coronavirus news. About a quarter (23%) are paying closer attention […]
The fast-moving coronavirus story has maintained Americans’ rapt attention. Roughly nine-in-ten U.S. adults (87%) are following news about the virus very or fairly closely, with just under half (46%) doing so very closely. Americans are also turning to a broad mix of sources for this news, whether traditional media outlets – national, local and international […]