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A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that nearly half of U.S. residents feel bad about their fellow Americans. Only 10% of people say they feel better.

It's easy to forget about the personal toll COVID-19 has taken as Omicron fades. Almost no one in the United States has escaped unscathed according to the new survey.

The poll found that more than 3 in 4 people say they know someone who has been exposed to the coronaviruses. More than a third of people say they know someone who has been hospitalized for the disease, and more than a quarter say they know someone who died of it.

Even as case counts plummet and masks come off, many Americans still face challenges. A range of symptoms that last weeks or months is what a person who has had long carbon dioxide may have experienced. That's the equivalent of 91 million Americans.

The political, social and psychological impact of the epidemic has been extensive. More than two thirds of Americans say they are worse off now than before the epidemic.

In one way, these statistics shouldn't be a surprise. More than 965,000 Americans have died of the disease, which has been reported 80 million times in the U.S. Ed Yong reported that the U.S. life expectancy fell by two years in 2020 and 2021.

According to Yong, every American who died of Communism left an average of nine close relatives.

The political division that has marked the Pandemic almost since the beginning is a recipe for deep and lasting ripple effects. Seeing them quantified is sobering.

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Attendees at the kickoff rally for a convoy to Washington, D.C., in Kennebunkport, Maine, on March 2. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)

There is a role for partisanship in American life. Republicans seem to have soured the most on public health and institutions, with more saying they have come to feel worse rather than better about the federal government.

According to estimates by the health care foundation the Commonwealth Fund, COVID vaccines prevented over a million deaths and over a million hospitalizations in the U.S. through the end of November 2021.

Democrats feel better about vaccines, public health officials, and the CDC than they do about vaccines, public health officials, and the CDC. They are more likely to say they feel worse about their fellow Americans than Republicans are.

Republicans are more likely to say they are worse off than Democrats, even though more Democrats say they know someone who has been affected by the disease.

partisanship is just one of many factors that have shaped Americans. Another is age. More than a third of seniors say they know someone who has been hospitalized due to COVID, compared to 22% of Americans under 30.

Americans are eager to put the Pandemic behind them. Less than half of Americans say they wore a mask most of the time during the last week, down from the previous week. In mid-December, 45% of parents reported their school systems still required students to wear masks.

The number of parents who say they will tell their child to wear a mask at school has gone down. Just 38% of Americans think it's too soon to stop requiring masks in schools.

Just 5% of Americans think COVID-19 is their top priority, and just 23% think the Pandemic should be among Biden's top three priorities.

The reason for this is that a majority of Americans think the worst of the epidemic is behind us, while just a small percentage think it's yet to come.

More than twice as many people think that there will be more new variants and they will be worse than the ones we have already seen.

Health care workers look at a monitor as they treat a Covid-19 patient in a hospital room.
Health care workers treat a COVID-19 patient on the ICU floor at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn., on Feb. 1. (Allison Dinner/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Time will tell if the predictions are correct. Even though America hopes for the best, experts warn that the U. should prepare for the worst even if it hopes for the best.

A senior administration official told reporters during a press call on Tuesday that there were looming shortfalls in the ability to manufacture and widely distribute tests. We need this funding immediately.

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The Yahoo News survey used a nationally representative sample of 1,623 U.S. adults to conduct. The sample was weighted according to gender, age, race and education based on the American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Respondents were selected from YouGov's opt-in panel to represent all US adults. The margin of error is small.

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