Despite wide partisan gaps in views of many aspects of the pandemic, some common ground exists
In Americans’ views of some aspects of the COVID-19 outbreak, there is little, or only modest, partisan difference.
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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.
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.
A third of U.S. adults say they changed their Thanksgiving plans “a great deal,” while roughly a quarter changed their plans “some.”
Social media activity by members of Congress changed in notable ways following the rioting at the Capitol by supporters of President Trump.
The share of Americans who say they know someone else who has been hospitalized or died due to COVID-19 has increased sharply since spring.
The shares of mothers and fathers who are working have fallen from 2019 to 2020, but the falloff has been comparable for each group.
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