According to a new poll, Republicans are less likely to believe public health officials, vaccinations and mask wearing worked well to help slow the Covid-19 Pandemic, with about half saying in May.
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According to the poll, support for public health officials to respond to the Pandemic decreased from March 2020 to May 2022.
Only 29% of Republicans said health officials were responding well, compared to 75% of Democrats, by the end of the year.
Over the course of the PAIN, Americans' confidence in state and local elected officials dropped by more than 10 percentage points.
39% of Republicans said vaccinations were very effective in limiting the spread of Covid, compared to 75% of Democrats, and a majority of Americans said vaccinations have been very effective.
Democrats are more likely than Republicans to believe that wearing a mask indoors is very effective at controlling Covid.
The percentage of Americans who think the coronaviruses poses a major threat to public health has fallen from 70% in January to 40% in May.
The percentage of Americans who said local hospitals and medical centers were doing a good job at the beginning of the Pandemic decreased slightly.
Older Americans were more likely to have had Covid than young people. More than half of those ages 18 to 29 said they had tested positive for Covid, compared to less than a third of those 50 to 64 and less than a third of those 65 and older. Younger people were more likely to have taken the test.
White evangelical protestants, Americans living in rural areas, and Americans without health insurance were the groups with the lowest vaccine rates. The people with a postgraduate degree and higher incomes were more likely to get the vaccine. More than 70% of adults in the US say they are protected against Covid.
As the Omicron BA.5 variant has become dominant, the daily Covid cases have peaked at around 100,000 in recent weeks, more than triple the 30,000 daily cases recorded in early April. The majority of Americans think the U.S. has moved past the worst part of the Covid epidemic, with 75% saying in May that the worst is behind it. The survey found that most Americans think vaccinations are effective at fighting Covid, and that treatments have gotten better since the start of the epidemic.
A poll found that most Americans don't care if people are wearing masks in public.
A poll shows that fewer Americans think COVID-19 is a major threat.
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