Axios-Ipsos poll: Most Americans say COVID is no longer a crisis

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

Less than one in 10 Americans now describe COVID-19 as a crisis — with about three in four calling it a manageable problem and one in six saying it's no problem at all — according to the latest installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index.

Why it matters: These sentiments — and the public's growing desire to be done with mask mandates and other restrictions — raise significant challenges for public health officials in managing new surges, and could create real political headwinds ahead of the midterms.

Between the lines: Democrats were five times as likely as Republicans to say COVID-19 is a crisis (16% to 3%). Meanwhile, Republicans were 10 times as likely as Democrats to say COVID-19 is not a problem (31% to 3%).

Here's another way to look at the overall numbers: About twice as large a share of Americans said COVID-19 is "not a problem at all" (17%) than said it is "a serious crisis" (9%).

Read more: https://www.axios.com/axios-ipsos-poll-most-americans-say-covid-is-no-longer-a-crisis-6604f7d2-a476-48eb-8e2d-9cb94c425159.html

[DownriverDem]

1. Might be more

like the flu now. I've been getting a flu shot yearly too. I just got my second Moderna booster yesterday and still wear a mask in stores. Some parts of the country are seeing BA.2 increasing so we will just have to wait and see.

[llashram]

2. yeah

and a lot of stupid, confused Americans are still spreading this continually mutating disease. Shanghai has ground to a halt as a vibrant bustling city because of COVID. This is not over by a long shot. Covid IS STILL AN EXTREME danger to the human race. But the arrogance of the human being supersedes truth and reason. Just listen to any superspreader Republickkkan in this country.

[thucythucy]

7. The sense of complacency is incredible.

We don't even know what our new infection rate is, since for the most part we've stopped monitoring.

I hope I'm wrong, but my fear is we ain't seen nothing yet.

[LenaBaby61]

8. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[Deminpenn]

3. No surprise

Like the colds and flu, covid's here. That's life. As always, Americans are moving on.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. The country has Dems to thank for this

Democrats are the ones who got vaccinated and took other precautions to get us to a better place for now at least.

Nearly 30,000 new cases a day are still happening, but really virtually the only ones getting severe Covid that requires hospitalization or leads to death right now are the unvaccinated idiots. The number of boosted people dying from Covid in the US right now is approaching 0.

Long Covid is still something to monitor, but we're never going to have restrictions because of long Covid.

[truthisfreedom]

5. Get yer boosters!

Mine’s scheduled Thursday. Four shots total.

[LenaBaby61]

9. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[IronLionZion]

6. It's manageable now with treatments and enough vaccinated people

So we are far less likely to need hospitalization or die now. Several of my coworkers got Omicron and recovered fully in about 3 days. We're all vaxxed and most are boosted too. We terminated the unvaxxed last fall.

Which is good considering the highly transmissible variants circulating now make it very likely we'll all get it sooner or later.

Personally I'm more worried about heart disease or shingles or something like that. I've been doing more cardio exercise to help my heart. My family likes to gloat that I'm the only one who got chickenpox so I have the shingles virus lying dormant in me for life.

[maxsolomon]

10. I'm in the 75%

It's pretty much in the Endemic phase. I still mask at the grocery; it's just polite.