Scientists Are Worried About New COVID-19 Variants—But Most Americans Aren't
that as we head into the winter months, “We should anticipate that we very well may get another variant that would emerge that would elude the immune response that we’ve gotten from infection and/or from vaccination.”published on Oct. 5 polled nearly 11,000 American adults from Sept. 13 to 18 and found that 69% of Americans believe new variants won’t have a major impact on the U.S.’s ability to contain the disease. Just 29% said a new variant will be a big setback to the U.S.
At this point in the pandemic, Americans also aren’t that worried about the individual risks that COVID-19 poses to them. Only 30% of people overall said that they were very or somewhat concerned about being hospitalized from COVID-19. However, people of color were more likely to be worried: 47% of Black Americans and 49% of Hispanics said they were very or somewhat concerned about COVID-19-related hospitalizations, compared to 22% of white Americans.
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