{"id":39053,"date":"2020-05-09T11:15:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T15:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=39053"},"modified":"2020-05-09T11:19:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T15:19:35","slug":"infographic-worries-continue-about-public-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=39053","title":{"rendered":"Infographic – Worries Continue About Public Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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9 May 2020. As Covid-19 cases and deaths continue to rise<\/a> in the U.S., Americans by and large continue to support restrictions on public activity during the pandemic. Data from the Pew Research Center<\/a> released this week report on these views, displayed in our weekend infographic.<\/p>\n

By about a two-to-one margin, U.S. adults overall express concerns that restrictions on activities in their states may be lifted too quickly. In Pew’s latest survey taken 29 April to 5 May, two-thirds of respondents (68%) express greater concerns that public activities may be resumed too quickly, while about one-third (31%) believe activities are not resumed quickly enough. Those percentages are basically the same as a poll taken 7 to 12 April showing a 66 to 32 percent split.<\/p>\n

The overall numbers, however, hide a sharp partisan divide. Among people who call themselves Democrats or leaning Democratic, nearly nine in 10 (87%) are worried about restrictions being lifted too quickly in late April and May, up from about eight in 10 (81%) in early April. Republicans and Republican-leaners, are about evenly divided in both surveys about lifting public activity restrictions too soon, or not quickly enough.<\/p>\n

In a separate question<\/a> on the 29 April to 5 May survey, about three-quarters of Americans (74%) say current restrictions on activities should stay about the same (48%) or support more restrictions (27%), compared to about a quarter (24%) who favor fewer restrictions. As with the question on concerns about lifting restrictions, a sharp partisan split is evident in these findings, with Democrats wanting more or the same restrictions, and Republicans more evenly divided.<\/p>\n

The data come from Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel<\/a> of 10,957 participants who complete online questionnaires.<\/p>\n

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