Two Years Into the Pandemic, Americans Inch Closer to a New Normal
Americans in 2022 find themselves in an environment that is at once greatly improved and frustratingly familiar.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Americans in 2022 find themselves in an environment that is at once greatly improved and frustratingly familiar.
53% of parents of K-12 students say schools in the United States should be providing a mix of in-person and online instruction this winter.
The pandemic and its effects on society became a pervasive part of the media narrative about Joe Biden’s first 60 days in office.
Those on the political right are more likely to say there should have been fewer public activity restrictions during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Publics disagree about whether restrictions on public activity, such as stay-at-home orders or mandates to wear masks in public, have gone far enough to combat COVID-19.
In Americans’ views of some aspects of the COVID-19 outbreak, there is little, or only modest, partisan difference.
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
Still about two-in-ten U.S. adults are “pretty certain” they won’t get the vaccine – even when there’s more information.
Just 9% of the public says it will be less than six months before most public activities operate about as they did before the outbreak.
Most people in 8 EU countries thought their country – and the bloc as a whole – had done a good job dealing with the pandemic this summer.
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