More than half of Americans support vaccine warrants for jobs, classrooms and sporting events

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The public is evenly distributed, between 51% and 49%, if a vaccination test is needed for daily activities, it is an acceptable way to increase the vaccination rate or an unacceptable violation of personal rights.

But there is greater support for the need for vaccines in many specific cases. More than half of Americans say they support the need to vaccinate returning office workers (54%), students attending face-to-face classes (55%), and those attending sporting events. or concerts (55%), although less (41%)) support the need for vaccines for a buyer to enter a grocery store.

Support for these mandates has increased broadly since April, up 6 percentage points from students, 8 points from office workers and event attendees, and 15 percentage points from grocery buyers.

The poll, which used a different methodology from the previous CNN poll, was conducted for a month during the months of August and September, before President Joe Biden announced new rules on vaccines. These requirements, announced last week, could apply to nearly two-thirds of the U.S. workforce.
This move, according to the survey, follows a strong resurgence of concern about the coronavirus and its impact on the nation. An overwhelming 86% of the public says the pandemic is not over in the US yet. Nearly two-thirds say the country has not yet begun to recover economically from the pandemic, and 41% say conditions continue to worsen, a more bleak outlook than in March.

The majority of Americans, 64%, say they continue to take extra precautions against coronavirus in their daily lives, with only 36% feeling safe enough to carry out their lives largely as they did before. -pandemic. And the vast majority say they are vaccinated against coronavirus, with a new minimum of 22% saying they do not have it and that they do not plan to do so. About half say they always follow the guidelines of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Covid-19, and 38% say they do in some cases.

School mask requirements, which have sparked political battles in several states, are also widely popular: 63% say all children attending school in person should wear masks to classrooms, with only 37% in school. versus.

Political divisions

Americans are politically divided on many aspects of the pandemic, from their personal reactions to their political preferences, a dynamic that several respondents to the poll, on both sides of the aisle, cited when they were asked. he asked them to name the biggest problems in the nation.

“(T) her pandemic is so politicized that people don’t listen to the experts and just listen to their own confirmation bias,” a Democratic-leaning, independent Texas woman said in a poll. Meanwhile, an Ohio Republican independent argued that Biden had “politicized the vaccine” since last year’s campaign.

Democrats are 24 percentage points more likely than Republicans to say the pandemic is not over, 50 points more likely to say they always follow CDC guidelines, and 46 points more likely to say they continue to take precautions against the virus. They are 54 points more likely to favor vaccination mandates in the workplace, 57 points more likely to view vaccination mandates as an acceptable strategy to increase the vaccination rate and 60 points more in favor of masking in schools. These partisan divisions far outweigh any variation along generational, gender, or racial lines.

But that doesn’t add up to a nation divided by the center on how it handles Covid-19. Most Republicans say they are vaccinated (60%) and at least somewhat attentive to CDC regulations (76%) and a considerable number continue to take precautions against coronavirus (40%) and, in each case, they unite an overwhelming majority of Democrats who say the same thing. .

Even on policy issues, Democrats tend to support more specific restrictions than universally opposed Republicans: one-third of Republicans, for example, support school mask requirements, while only 7% of Democrats are against.

Republicans who say they have been vaccinated themselves respond slightly more to the regulations than those who say they have not been vaccinated: 43% of Republicans who have been shot say they are in favor of workplace vaccination requirements , compared to only 3% of those who are not vaccinated.

But there are also signs of an underlying divide between former Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters – most of the Republican Party – and the rest of the party. Republicans who say Trump should be the party leader are 18 percentage points more likely than those who say he should not lead the party to convene the pandemic, 32 points more opposed to office vaccine requirements and 26 points more prone to be themselves, unvaccinated.

Looking to the future, Americans are much more in agreement on conserving some of the social changes introduced by the pandemic, even once coronavirus cases have fallen to a manageable level. There is broad support for conserving many remote alternatives: 86% say companies should continue to offer workers the option to work remotely, another 86% say doctors should continue to offer the option for appointments. of telemedicine and 69% say schools should continue to offer remote learning. options for students. Nine out of ten Americans also want restaurants to keep expanded outdoor dining options, with 81% expecting movies to continue to be released at home, while being released in theaters.

Americans also want the people around them to continue to take some action against the spread of disease. A majority of 84% say people should continue to choose to wear face masks in mass transit and other small spaces, and an almost universal 93% say people should continue to stay home when they have coronavirus symptoms. .

The new CNN survey was conducted by SSRS from August 3 to September 7 among a random national sample of 2,119 adults who were initially reached by mail. Interviews were conducted online or by telephone with a live interviewer. The results of the complete sample have a margin of sampling error of approximately 2.8 percentage points.

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