Tag: Pandemic
Most Say Pandemic Is Not Over
50%
Pandemic Playing Havoc with Our ‘Better Angels’
43%
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds that, two years into the pandemic, 43% of U.S. residents say they feel “worse” about their “fellow Americans. Just 10% say they feel “better.” Only 14% of Americans say they’re “better off” now than before the pandemic, while 35% say they’re “worse off.”
Stark Proof that Vaccines are Winning Against Omicron
The next time your unvaccinated coworker starts telling you that the shots make no difference because even vaccinated people are getting omicron, whip out these charts. They were published in the excellent and free New York Times daily email, The Morning.
First, look at how being vaccinated affects whether you will get omicron:
OK, so some people who are vaccinated are still getting covid during the omicron surge. But who’s staying home and isolating and whose cases are so severe that they have to go into the hospital to recover? […]
Beto O’Rourke Calls out the Texas GOP As a Death Cult
O’ROURKE: This is a death cult, the Texas GOP. Only they want
ABC/WaPo Poll: Trump Approval on Handling Pandemic Plummets
ABC News: “With COVID-19 cases soaring nationally, Americans by nearly a two to one margin distrust what President Donald Trump says about the pandemic, and six in 10 in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll disapprove of how he’s handling it, up steeply since the early days of the outbreak. Just 38 percent in the national survey now approve of Trump’s response, down from 46 percent in late May and a narrow majority, 51 percent, in late March, a 13-point drop. Disapproval gained 15 percent in the same period, to 60 percent.”
Full report here [PDF].
Italy Records 368 COVID-19 Deaths in a Day
368
“Italy has recorded 368 new coronavirus deaths – its largest number of fatalities in a day since the start of the outbreak,” Sky News reports.“A total of 1,809 people with COVID-19 have now died in the country, which is the hardest-hit by the virus in Europe, as the number of cases rose to more than 24,700.”
Most Think Pandemic Will Get Worse
60%
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds 60% of Americans say the worst is yet to come in the coronavirus pandemic, while 31% said the outbreak is not likely to be a major problem in the U.S.
Trump Fired the Entire U.S. Pandemic Response Chain of Command in 2018
The longer Donald Trump is in office, the greater the risk that the corruption and incompetence at the top of the U.S. government will cause or contribute to a large-scale disaster — something like a Category 5 hurricane that hits the mainland, a 7.0 or greater quake in the West or on the New Madrid Fault in the East, or, as seems to be increasingly likely, a coronavirus pandemic that could affect every state in the Union.
