AP-NORC poll: Less than half back Trump’s pandemic response

By Julie Pace, Hannah Fingerhut and Will Weissert | The Associated Press April 1, 2020 WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans give high marks to state and local governments for their handling of the fast-moving coronavirus pandemic that has swiftly remade everyday life. But less than half approve of the job done thus far by President Donald…

Poll: Pandemic does little to alter US views on health care

By Emily Swanson and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar | The Associated Press June 8, 2020 WASHINGTON (AP) — The coronavirus pushed hospitals to the edge, and millions of workers lost job-based coverage in the economic shutdown to slow the spread, but a new poll suggests Americans have remarkably little interest in big changes to health care as…

AP-NORC poll: Few Americans support easing virus protections

By Thomas Beaumont and Hannah Fingerhut | The Associated Press April 22, 2020 WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans remain overwhelmingly in favor of stay-at-home orders and other efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a new survey finds, even as small pockets of attention-grabbing protests demanding the lifting of such restrictions emerge nationwide. The survey…

AP-NORC poll: Pandemic especially tough on people of color

By Kat Stafford and Emily Swanson | The Associated Press May 6, 2020 DETROIT (AP) — People of color have not only been hit harder by the deadly coronavirus than have Americans overall, but they’re also bearing the brunt of the pandemic’s financial impact, according to a recent survey from the The Associated Press-NORC Center for…

AP-NORC poll: Americans harbor strong fear of new infections

By Thomas Beaumont and Hannah Fingerhut | The Associated Press May 20, 2020 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Strong concern about a second wave of coronavirus infections is reinforcing widespread opposition among Americans to reopening public places, a new poll finds, even as many state leaders step up efforts to return to life before the pandemic.…