A Year of U.S. Public Opinion on the Coronavirus Pandemic
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
Here’s what our surveys have found about how Americans across the age spectrum have experienced the coronavirus pandemic.
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.
While the CDC has pointed to some possible factors that may be contributing to this pattern, the public is divided in its perceptions.
Distress levels changed little overall from March to April, but this concealed considerable change at the individual level over this period.
65% of U.S. adults say that they have personally worn a mask in stores or other businesses all or most of the time in the past month.
As the pandemic continues, a growing share of Americans say they are regularly wearing a face covering in stores and other businesses.
From 2016 through 2019, lawmaker mentions of Asian Americans on social media – either of the population at large or of smaller subgroups – followed a relatively predictable pattern.
Nearly one-in-five U.S. adults say they have had a physical reaction at least some or a little of the time when thinking about the outbreak.
The last year the Postal Service recorded any profit was 2006, and its cumulative losses since then totaled $83.1 billion as of March 31.
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