Survey Shows Growing Concerns Over Delta Variant

Americans are increasingly concerned about the delta variant of the coronavirus and are divided along party lines on President BidenJoe Biden Biden calls on Congress to pass voting bills on anniversary of John Lewis’ death Afghan and Taliban officials meet in Qatar amid US troop withdrawal Biden administration investigation of “Havana syndrome” cases in Austria MOREhandling the new strain, according to a new survey.

A CBS-YouGov survey released over the weekend found that 62% of Americans expressed concern about the delta variant, now the dominant strain in the United States, including 48% of people who said they were not. vaccinated or not fully vaccinated.

Seventy-two percent of Americans vaccinated said they were concerned about the delta variant. Of those surveyed who said they were not vaccinated, 53% said they worried about side effects as a reason for refusing to be vaccinated.

Federal health officials have repeatedly stated that the three vaccines used in the United States are safe and effective in fighting the coronavirus and the delta variant.

Biden has pledged to work harder throughout the summer to tackle misinformation about coronavirus vaccines and get more gunfire across the country.

On Sunday, the Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said the United States is witnessing a “proliferation of online disinformation” that has resulted in lower national vaccination rates since the spring.

“We still see a proliferation of misinformation online, and we know that health misinformation harms people’s health. It costs them their lives, ”he said.

According to partisan lines, 57% of Republicans in the CBS-YouGov poll said Biden was focusing too much on vaccinating people. Only 35% of Democrats said the same.

Eighty-four percent of Democrats said they were or plan to be fully immunized, compared to 62 percent of Republicans and 67 percent of Independents.

Almost 30% of Republicans surveyed said they would not be vaccinated.

The survey was conducted by YouGov among 2,238 American adults between July 14 and July 17. It has a margin of error of 2.4 percentage points.