GALLUP: Americans are less confident they can be protected from Covid-19 in public


The following is an excerpt of a report from Gallup.

  • Percentage “very confident” they can avoid infection drops in July
  • Nearly two-thirds worried about variants spreading; three in 10 “very worried”
  • Vaccine resisters are the exception, with fewer than one in five worried

With the delta variant driving COVID-19 infection rates back up in July, Americans have become less confident that they can protect themselves when in public from catching the coronavirus. The percentage who are “very confident” fell to 38% at the end of the month, after rising to a pandemic high of 51% in May and remaining near that level, at 50%, in June. For most of last year, fewer than one in four Americans were very confident they could protect themselves.

Another 52% of adults now feel “somewhat confident” they can protect themselves in public from the coronavirus, and 10% are “not too” or “not at all” confident.

These findings are from Gallup’s July 19-26 update of its monthly COVID-19 tracking study, conducted by web using the nationally representative Gallup Panel. Since the poll was completed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has intensified its warnings about the dangers the delta variant poses and has recommended that vaccinated people wear face masks in certain areas. New research also indicates that the variant is as contagious as chickenpox and the common cold, and that vaccinated people who are sickened by it are as likely as unvaccinated people to spread it.

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4 thoughts on “GALLUP: Americans are less confident they can be protected from Covid-19 in public”

  1. I have very little concern about Covid. 13 out of 14 residents of my county have remained uninfected over the past 18 months. While there may have been a small increase in cases, hospitalizations and deaths are way down. “Delta” may spread more easily but it seems to be far less dangerous. Why would I worry about that? I’m far more concerned about government stomping on my rights.

  2. Stephanie Urquhart

    Total lie! Smallpox can hang in the air Delta Varient cannot it’s just like a flu. Get over yourselves America wash your hands constantly and if you want to wear a mask wear one but nobody should be mandated to wear a mask, Wash your hands coming and going and don’t go to work if you’re sick don’t go to school if you’re sick. Study the pandemic from 1957 and get a life! The worthless CDC is not telling you that the vaccines efficacy fades because The antibodies are synthetic and it was not made to kill the virus like polio was. So in order for the government to keep this virus going, they want you to keep getting vaxxed.(while turning more pharmaceutical owners into billionaires) This will only push Covid- the Delta strain-etc. into perpetuity. The world needs to live their lives get herd immunity so Covid will be a blip on our screen and be treated like the flu. Covid has been politicized.

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