States have mandated vaccinations since long before COVID-19
Republican- and Democratic-led states alike already require hundreds of thousands of citizens to be vaccinated against various diseases.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Republican- and Democratic-led states alike already require hundreds of thousands of citizens to be vaccinated against various diseases.
Dissatisfaction with the functioning of democracy is linked to concerns about the economy, the pandemic and social divisions.
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.
The share of Americans viewing illegal immigration as a ‘very big’ problem has increased.
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.
In the nearly nine months since the coronavirus outbreak was declared a national emergency, almost every part of the country has been directly affected by the loss of life resulting from the virus.
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.
A third of U.S. adults say they changed their Thanksgiving plans “a great deal,” while roughly a quarter changed their plans “some.”
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