WASHINGTON – A year ago, as Americans were casting their votes for president, the effects of the coronavirus pandemic had shifted attitudes toward greater support for a more robust role for government. Many Democrats believed that could be a long-lasting effect and President Joe Biden built his domestic agenda in part around the idea that…
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Topline Americans are less optimistic they can return to their “normal” lives than they did earlier this year, according to a new Axios-Ipsos poll, after a summer of new pandemic restrictions amid soaring Covid-19 infections, record-high deaths and overwhelmed hospitals. Americans are less optimistic about a return to “normal” life than summer, poll finds. Getty…
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Oct. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Experts are warning that the upcoming flu season could be severe as social distancing measures are relaxed across the United States, but a new survey finds that 6 in 10 Americans may delay or skip a flu shot. However, it also found that…
October 9, 2021 8:40 AM Login page on laptop screen. The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! In conjunction with Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a new report by Security.org finds that 68% of Americans use the same password across accounts. This isn’t the only disturbing password statistic: More…
Topline With less than two weeks until the Treasury Department expects to hit the congressionally set limit on the nation’s total borrowing, the White House warned on Wednesday that the resulting debt default would quickly—and in some cases, overnight—hinder the government’s ability to pay out federal benefits relied upon by tens of millions of Americans,…
By Amy Norton HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, Oct. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Black Americans have been persistently hard-hit with heart disease risk factors for the past 20 years — and social issues like unemployment and low income account for a good deal of it, a new study finds.Cardiovascular disease, which includes heart disease and stroke, is…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than 55% of deaths from police violence in the USA from 1980-2018 were misclassified or unreported in official vital statistics reports according to a new study in The Lancet. The highest rate of deaths from police violence occurred for Black Americans, who were estimated to be 3.5 times more likely…
Sept. 29, 2021 — More than 400,000 people in the U.S. have received COVID-19 booster shots at pharmacies since the third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was authorized last week, White House officials announced Tuesday. Most of the shots were given over the weekend, and nearly 1 million people have scheduled appointments to get a…
Topline While most Americans blame vaccine holdouts for surging coronavirus cases, rationed medicines and overwhelmed hospitals, few unvaccinated people feel any responsibility, according to new polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation, underscoring the tough barriers officials must overcome as they seemingly hold anyone and anything other than themselves responsible for the dire outbreak. The unvaccinated…