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President Joe Biden is shedding support from independents, a crucial voting bloc that helped Democrats win the White House and Congress last year, as a resurgence of COVID-19 cases slows the country's return to normal from the pandemic, Reuters/Ipsos polling shows.

By Chris Kahn and James Oliphant NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is shedding support from independents, a crucial voting bloc that helped Dem...

With pandemic guidelines constantly changing, are people losing trust in public health agencies?

NPR's Kelsey Snell talks with public health professor Robert Blendon about mistrust in government health agencies and who unvaccinated Americans might trust to be messengers on the COVID-19 vaccine.

In a recent posting on her Facebook page, Brytney Cobia, a physician in Birmingham, Alabama, described the pain of telling COVID patients who are about to be intubated that their pleas for vaccination have come too late. “A few days later when I call time of death, I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same,” Cobia wrote. “They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political ...

I think people will have to make difficult decisions. but whilst these larger companies gain public attention for their mandates, a survey from may found 72% of companies in the us were not planning on requiring vaccination before entering the workplace, and public opinion is evenly split on whether or not vaccine mandates should be introduced by private companie. by private companies. robert blendon is a professor of health politics at harvard. here he is on whether the mandate will be welcomed...

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  Share Source: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes As was previewed last week, a POLITICO-Harvard survey is out when it comes to various aspects of the Wuhan coronavirus. The results last week showed that a majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, believe that the virus originated from a lab leak. On Sunday, the results of vaccine mandates were released, which shows how "almost evenly divided" Americans are on the issue, prompting Dan Goldberg in his POLITICO write up to note that ...

  Share Source: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan Portions of a new POLITICO-Harvard poll released on Friday revealed that a majority of Democrats are now on board with believing that the Wuhan coronavirus originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Republicans and  Independents have consistently believed this theory, as I reported when it comes to Morning Consult and Fox News polls conducted and released last month. When it comes to how much views have changed since March 2020 and the lack of a par...

As it fights a pandemic, CDC wages a second battle to win back trust "Were following the science." The line rolls regularly off the tongues of top US health officials -- no one more so than US Centers for Disease Control and... Posted: May 22, 2021 9:51 AM Posted By: CNN "Were following the science." The line rolls regularly off the tongues of top US health officials -- no one more so than US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky. Science dictated last week...