Due to the highly contagious Delta variant, there has been a surge in COVID-19 cases in the United States in recent months, so Americans’ approval of the President Joe BidenThe response to the pandemic dropped sharply, A new study found.
this ABC information/Washington post Public opinion polls released on Sunday showed that the current support rate for Biden’s handling of the epidemic was 52%, down from 62% in June. Although 41% of people said they did not approve of Biden’s response to COVID-19, the remaining respondents in the survey have not yet made a decision.
The opinion poll surveyed a “random national sample” of 1,006 people, with a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
The new study also found that Americans are now more worried about contracting COVID-19 than earlier this year.
The survey summary shows that 47% of Americans believe that they have a high or moderate risk of COVID-19. “With the surge in Delta variants, this proportion was 29% in June, a sharp increase.”
Most Americans (seven out of ten) believe that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe.
“However, there is guilt,” the poll said.
“Fewer people-43%-say they are very safe or very effective. 27% think they are not safe or effective. Those who hold these doubts are hesitant to vaccines; in a statistical analysis called regression , They are crucially not a predictor of shooting,” it added.
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Among those surveyed, 50% said that vaccination was a “personal choice”, while 48% said they believed it was a responsibility.
“Among the unvaccinated people, the percentage of people who think it’s a personal choice has soared to 91%, and eight out of ten people have a strong opinion about it. In contrast, among the vaccinated people, 62% People said it was a responsibility to other people,” the survey revealed.
But overall, the study found that vaccine hesitation has “faded.” In January, 32% of respondents said they did not plan to get vaccinated, while the poll released on Sunday stated that only 17% of respondents said the same.
In addition to asking respondents about Biden’s response to the pandemic, the poll also found that fewer Americans approve of the president’s handling of the economy: 45% approve of it and 49% disapprove.
According to data from FiveThirtyEight, a poll tracking agency, Biden’s overall approval rate is currently 45.9%. The agency assesses Biden’s popularity based on analysis of extensive public opinion polls and its own opinion poll rating system.
Biden’s popularity has declined because his government faces severe criticism American armiesWithdraw troops from Afghanistan.
A sort of Opinion poll published by NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist College On Thursday, it was found that the president’s overall approval rating had dropped to 43%—a decrease of 6 percentage points from July.
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