A new survey finds that only 12 percent of Americans believe that stay-at-home mandates and other restrictions on social interactions are excessive, despite the pockets of recent protests against such limitations, according to a new AP-NORC poll.
Meanwhile, a majority of respondents — 61 percent — report feeling the steps their governments have taken to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus are necessary, or “about right.”
The remaining 26 percent found that the new social limitations do not go far enough to keep people from becoming infected with the virus.
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Analyzed by respondents’ political party, the majority of Democrats and Republicans believe the measures put in place by state governments “are about right,” recording 62 percent and 59 percent respectively.
More Republicans surveyed believe that the restrictions “go too far” boasting 22 percent compared to Democrats’ 5 percent.
Conversely, 33 percent of Democrat respondents found that government actions “don’t go far enough” as opposed to 19 percent of Republican respondents.
Overall, widespread concern that an individual or a family member will be infected with the virus has decreased, but remains a prominent sentiment among the majority of Americans. The AP-NORC data records that recent statistics from mid-April reflect 78 percent of surveyed Americans are worried about a potential infection to themselves or loved ones, down from 84 percent in late March.
According to the Johns Hopkins CSSE map, the U.S. continues to lead the world in confirmed coronavirus cases, with 839,836 infections across the country.
The survey was based on interviews with 1,057 U.S. adults between April 16 and 20. The margin of error is 4 percentage points.
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