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Dennis Donovan

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Wed Apr 8, 2020, 06:13 AM Apr 2020

CNN Poll: Majority of Americans now say the federal govt has done a poor job of preventing CV spread

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/cnn-poll-coronavirus-april-8/index.html

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director

Updated 6:03 AM ET, Wed April 8, 2020

(CNN)A majority of Americans -- 55% -- now say the federal government has done a poor job preventing the spread of coronavirus in the United States, up eight points in about a week, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS as the nationwide death toll from the virus rose above 12,000.

Eighty percent feel the worst of the outbreak is yet to come, most (55%) feel President Donald Trump could be doing more to fight the outbreak, and 37% say they have grown more concerned about coronavirus in the last few days, far outpacing the 5% who say their fears have eased recently.

About 1 in 5 (22%) say they personally know someone who has been diagnosed with the virus, a figure that is double the share who said so in a Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted just two weeks ago.

Just under half (46%) say it is at least somewhat likely that they or someone in their family will contract the coronavirus, and there are deep disparities by socio-economic status and partisanship in Americans' level of confidence that they will be able to get treatment should they become ill with the virus.

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no_hypocrisy

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2. The Executive Branch
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 06:28 AM
Apr 2020

Not the House, not the Senate, not the Court.

The White House, Donald J. Trump and his "advisors"

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