Majority of Texans Think Coronavirus Response Is Going Badly, Poll Shows
As infections of the novel coronavirus surge across North Texas and around the state, a majority of Texans now say efforts to control the spread of the virus are going badly, according to a poll released this week.
The poll, conducted by the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin, showed that 51% of Texans think efforts in the U.S. to deal with the spread of COVID-19 are going badly, a sharp uptick from the 29% who said the same in April.
Texans' opinions broke along ideological lines: 50% of those who identified as conservatives said efforts to curb the virus were going "somewhat well," while 60% of self-described liberals said they were going "very badly."
Those results come at a time when North Texas' coronavirus numbers are looking increasingly dire. Monday, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said the county had seen its largest-ever single-day uptick in hospitalizations related to COVID-19. The county had 105 coronavirus-related hospitalizations Monday, a 16% increase over the day before.
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What the hell would it take to get up to 52% to think it is going badly?
