Americans are less concerned that a family member could contract COVID-19 compared to a month ago, according to a new poll.
As President Donald Trump encourages the country to resume economic activity amid the coronavirus outbreak, Americans' concerns that a family member could contract the illness have eased compared to a month ago, according to aForty-two percent of Americans said they were"very concerned" that someone in their family could become seriously ill from COVID-19 and 28% said they were"somewhat concerned.
"Concern about Covid seems to have returned to where it was in the early days of the public response to the pandemic in this country," said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. Americans were split, 50%-50%, when asked if they were confident the country would be able to manage the outbreak as it reopens in the coming weeks.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, in turn, said Trump was playing politics with the pandemic, accusing the president of"deflecting blame and dividing Americans." More Republicans said they were"not too concerned" about the possibility than independents or Democrats . And while 25% of Republicans were"not at all concerned," 19% of independents and 3% of Democrats said the same.
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