{"id":51294,"date":"2022-08-10T13:19:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51294"},"modified":"2022-08-10T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T23:20:11","slug":"fewer-americans-say-covid-19-situation-is-improving-gallup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51294","title":{"rendered":"FEWER AMERICANS SAY COVID-19 SITUATION IS IMPROVING: GALLUP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer Americans believe that the COVID-19 situation in the country is improving,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28686990.26112\/aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdhbGx1cC5jb20vcG9sbC8zOTYxMzQvYW1lcmljYW5zLWxlc3Mtb3B0aW1pc3RpYy1jb3ZpZC1zaXR1YXRpb24uYXNweD9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB638de295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28686990.26112\/aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdhbGx1cC5jb20vcG9sbC8zOTYxMzQvYW1lcmljYW5zLWxlc3Mtb3B0aW1pc3RpYy1jb3ZpZC1zaXR1YXRpb24uYXNweD9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB638de295&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660258580328000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0AvRtesp5li-36VRzfX5Mq\">according to a new Gallup poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The poll, published on Wednesday, found that 41 percent of respondents said that the COVID-19 situation is getting better in the U.S., down 22 points from a similar poll published in April and May.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thirty percent of respondents said that the nation\u2019s COVID-19 situation is getting worse, while 29 percent of those surveyed said it is staying the same, according to the poll.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Partisan divide:\u00a0<\/strong>The shift was particularly notable among Democratic respondents.<\/p>\n<p>In Gallup\u2019s polling in April and May, 56 percent of Democrats said they thought the situation was improving, compared to just 29 percent in the new poll. While just about one-quarter thought the situation was getting worse in the spring poll, now 44 percent think it is getting worse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-eight percent of Republican respondents believe that the country\u2019s COVID-19 situation has gotten better, while 41 percent of independent respondents believe the same sentiment, the poll said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer Americans believe that the COVID-19&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51294","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=51294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51295,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51294\/revisions\/51295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}