Thirty-seven percent of voters say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is moving too slow in its response to the delta variant of the coronavirus, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds.
Forty-three percent of registered voters in the Aug. 4-5 survey said the CDC is moving at just the right speed and 20 percent said it’s moving too fast.
Fifty-one percent of Democrats said the health agency is moving at the right speed in addressing the delta variant, while 38 percent said it’s too slow and 11 percent said it’s too fast.
A plurality of independents voters, 47 percent, said the CDC is acting at just the right speed, while 30 percent said too slow and 23 percent said too fast.
Thirty-nine percent of Republicans said the agency is too slow while 33 percent said it’s acting at the right speed and 28 percent said too fast.
The survey also found 59 percent of registered voters said they approve of the way the CDC has been handling the spread of the delta variant throughout the country, while 41 percent said they disapprove.
The high contagious delta variant has led to spikes in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across the U.S., particularly among the unvaccinated.
The Hill-HarrisX poll was conducted online among 1,103 registered voters. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.95 percentage points.
—Gabriela Schulte
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