Research Home September 3, 2020

Hardship, anxiety, and optimism: Racial and partisan disparities in Americans’ response to COVID-19

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A new major survey finds that the public has become more critical in their views about how the federal government has responded to coronavirus. A considerable number believe that life will not get back to normal until sometime in 2021, but despite concerns about the ongoing threat coronavirus poses to American public health, the Americans increasingly supports efforts to reopen the economy even if it puts some members of the public at risk.