{"id":44206,"date":"2022-01-28T23:09:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T07:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44206"},"modified":"2022-01-28T23:09:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T07:09:11","slug":"poll-highlights-continued-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44206","title":{"rendered":"POLL HIGHLIGHTS CONTINUED CHALLENGES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll finds that\u00a0more than 60 percent of\u00a0U.S. adults who tried to get an at-home COVID-19 test reported difficulty doing so, underscoring problems with testing access.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/idbzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqybgnmbz_izbymmvhvwydbvbyvdmv.html?a=&amp;b=46631\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/idbzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqybgnmbz_izbymmvhvwydbvbyvdmv.html?a%3D%26b%3D46631&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643500945659000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Ygl-BZwP6hOZeh_aWUpy0\">survey from<\/a>\u00a0the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 62 percent of U.S. adults who tried to get an at-home\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0test in the past month had difficulty, compared to 38 percent who found it easy.<\/p>\n<p>The results were better for in-person tests, with 65 percent saying it was easy and 35 percent difficult. But experts have pointed to the value of at-home tests for their ease of use and rapid results, avoiding the need to wait days for a reading.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, which was conducted Jan. 11-23,\u00a0adds some statistical rigor to anecdotal reports across the country of retailers sold out of at-home tests.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 23 percent of adults said they tried to get either an in-person or at-home test in the past month and had difficulty, the poll found, with 24 percent trying and not having difficulty, but a majority, 52 percent, not trying at all.<\/p>\n<p>The new website could help, but orders are limited to four tests per residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll finds that\u00a0more than&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-opinion","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44207,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44206\/revisions\/44207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}