America Is Preparing For COVIDLESS Summer

Written By BlabberBuzz | Tuesday, 15 June 2021 05:15 AM

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America Is Preparing For COVIDLESS Summer

The latest Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index reveals that the nation's anxieties of coronavirus proceed to fall as people increasingly get out of the home and back into the world. This inflection point seems to represent many Americans adapting to a post-pandemic world, even as much of the rest of the world grapples with surging rates. Though, there continues to be a substantial block of the population opposed to the vaccine though unwilling to engage in protective measures presenting a risk of a new surge of cases or an incubator for a virus variant.

Detailed findings:

1. Americans are going out into the world at growing rates as fears of COVID decline.

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Two thirds of Americans (66%) saw family and friends in the last week and nearly as many (61%) went out to eat. Both of these numbers are up three percentage points from before Memorial Day and represent the highest level of out of home activity since the beginning of the pandemic.

The vaccinated (63%) and unvaccinated (58%) are not significantly changed when it comes to dining out.

At the same time, fewer than half (44%) of Americans report social distancing in the last week, the same level as before Memorial Day.

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This arrives as just a third (30%) of Americans look at returning to their pre-coronavirus life as a risk, down eight points from late May and less than half the amount who felt risk throughout last year.

More Americans report their emotional (19%) and mental (17%) health improved in the last week than got worse (13% emotional, 10% mental).

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2. The block of opponents to getting vaccinated does not seem to have contracted, even as some of the harder-to-reach groups proceed to get their shots.

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Two in three American adults (66%) report getting a COVID vaccine, in line with current CDC figures (64%).

Seven percent report they remain likely to get a COVID vaccination with an additional seven percent stating they are not likely, though not hard opposed (14% total reachable adult population).

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One in five (19%) report they are not at all likely to get the vaccine. This ‘hard pass’ group has stayed roughly the same size since January.

Turning to parents, roughly half (45%) proceed to say they are not very or not at all likely to get their children vaccinated. Roughly one in eight (15%) report that their child has been vaccinated.

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That amount of vaccinated children rises to 30% if we look only at parents of 12-17 year olds (the age group currently eligible) with 40% saying they are not likely to get their child vaccinated.