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A new poll finds that most Americans back an expansive government effort to combat COVID-19 and to shore up the nation’s sluggish economy.

POLITICO-Harvard poll: Public strongly backs Biden's demand for Covid aid The vast majority of Americans are eager for sweeping legislation that could end the pandemic and rescue the ailing economy. President-elect Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 6, 2021. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo Link Copied Americans just want the pandemic to be over — and President-elect Joe Biden will take office with overwhelming support for government action to make that happen. The vast majority of Americans are eager for sweeping legislation aimed at ending the nation’s health crisis and boosting the fl...

One in five in U.S. report delayed health care during pandemic Roughly 20% of U.S. adults who were polled about health care during the coronavirus pandemic said that they or their household members delayed receiving medical care or were unable to get care at all due to the crisis, according to a recent study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and National Public Radio. “We were really shocked,” said Mary Gorski Findling, lead study author and senior research associate at Harvard Chan School, in a January 6, 2021, article in Verywell Health....

Spencer Platt/Getty Images toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images A Hasidic man and medical workers cross paths near the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., in November. When public health messaging comes from community leaders, it's much more likely to be adopted, research on diverse groups finds. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services booked an unusual guest interviewer for one of its public health events this fall: Shulem Lemmer, the first Hasidic singer to sign with a major record label. Lemmer has no...

Spencer Platt / Getty Images The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services booked an unusual guest interviewer for one of its public health events this fall: Shulem Lemmer, the first Hasidic singer to sign with a major record label. Lemmer has no particular expertise in public health, but he grew up in Brooklyn, home to many ultraorthodox Jews like himself. He's seen as a trusted messenger in parts of the Hasidic community that, despite suffering a disproportionate number of hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19, have on some occasions resisted New York's pandemic restrictions. In...