One month later, Americans' views of the coronavirus have undergone a seismic shift. The impact on daily lives and assessments of the perils it poses have exploded amid rising uncertainty about when routine daily activities will seem safe again
The pandemic's impact on their daily lives and their assessments of the perils it poses have exploded, a new USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds, amid rising uncertainty about when routine daily activities will seem safe again.
USA TODAY and Ipsos conducted a nationwide poll about COVID-19 on March 10-11, when the pandemic was gaining steam. At the time, the World Health Organization had reported more than 100,000 coronavirus cases worldwide, and President Donald Trump had curtailed entry from foreign nationals who had visited China in the previous two weeks. He declared a national emergency a few days later, on March 13.
The poll found a sharpened sense of the dangers and an increasingly somber assessment of the challenges ahead. Trust in governors to provide accurate information has grown by double-digits. "I would prefer to be extra-cautious, to be very mindful about a flare-up that might get into a wildfire effect," says Jaime Ramos, 41, of San Antonio, who was recovering from an injury and beginning to look for work when the pandemic hit."In my local community, we haven't reached the plateau yet. At the very least, we need positive cases to come way down and be very rare to maintain some kind of semblance of normality.
One proposal does divide the country, and along partisan lines. Those surveyed split when asked if the government should provide temporary financial help for undocumented immigrants who can't work because of layoffs or illness: 40% in favor, 42% against, 18%"didn't know." Sixty-eight percent of Republicans oppose the idea; 58% of Democrats support it.
"None of us can visit her or anything like that," Wilson says."We've been giving her well wishes over her Facebook page and virtual hugs." "We don't want to give them another date" in case it turns out they have to be delayed again, he says. The countdown clock on the group's website shows the next trip scheduled for July 21 – they hope.
Governors as a group are more highly trusted than the president by 25 percentage points, a difference that could be significant if there is a clash between statehouses and the White House about when parts of the nation can safely reopen. "The most trustworthy source I can rely on is my mayor, Mayor Nirenberg, and the governor, Gov. Abbott," Ramos says.
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