Coronavirus Seriousness (February 2021)
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| category | Total |
|---|---|
| A significant crisis | 53% |
| A serious problem but not a crisis | 32% |
| A minor problem | 9% |
| Not a problem at all | 4% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 2% |
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| Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| A significant crisis | 85% | 48% | 26% |
| A serious problem but not a crisis | 11% | 21% | 53% |
| A minor problem | 2% | 10% | 14% |
| Not a problem at all | 1% | 11% | 6% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 10% | 1% |
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| Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
|---|---|---|---|
| A significant crisis | 83% | 77% | 89% |
| A serious problem but not a crisis | 12% | 19% | 7% |
| A minor problem | 2% | 1% | 3% |
| Not a problem at all | 2% | 0% | 0% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 3% | 0% |
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| Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| A significant crisis | 21% | 33% | 26% |
| A serious problem but not a crisis | 53% | 55% | 52% |
| A minor problem | 18% | 9% | 14% |
| Not a problem at all | 8% | 2% | 7% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 2% | 1% |
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| Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| A significant crisis | 82% | 60% | 29% |
| A serious problem but not a crisis | 15% | 23% | 49% |
| A minor problem | 1% | 8% | 14% |
| Not a problem at all | 1% | 4% | 7% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 6% | 1% |
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| Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
|---|---|---|---|
| A significant crisis | 76% | 84% | 86% |
| A serious problem but not a crisis | 21% | 12% | 12% |
| A minor problem | 0% | 3% | 1% |
| Not a problem at all | 2% | 0% | 1% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 0% | 2% | 0% |
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| Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
|---|---|---|---|
| A significant crisis | 42% | 23% | 29% |
| A serious problem but not a crisis | 34% | 58% | 46% |
| A minor problem | 13% | 16% | 13% |
| Not a problem at all | 9% | 2% | 12% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 1% | 1% |
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| Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
|---|---|---|---|
| A significant crisis | 48% | 76% | 53% |
| A serious problem but not a crisis | 35% | 16% | 31% |
| A minor problem | 11% | 2% | 5% |
| Not a problem at all | 4% | 5% | 5% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 2% | 6% |
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| Category | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| A significant crisis | 47% | 58% |
| A serious problem but not a crisis | 32% | 31% |
| A minor problem | 11% | 7% |
| Not a problem at all | 6% | 3% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 3% | 1% |
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| Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
|---|---|---|---|
| A significant crisis | 61% | 50% | 47% |
| A serious problem but not a crisis | 24% | 36% | 34% |
| A minor problem | 8% | 8% | 11% |
| Not a problem at all | 5% | 4% | 6% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 2% | 2% | 2% |
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| Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A significant crisis | 45% | 55% | 53% | 57% |
| A serious problem but not a crisis | 36% | 23% | 33% | 34% |
| A minor problem | 6% | 13% | 9% | 6% |
| Not a problem at all | 6% | 5% | 4% | 3% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 7% | 3% | 0% | 0% |
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| Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A significant crisis | 39% | 55% | 47% | 58% | 54% | 56% |
| A serious problem but not a crisis | 34% | 29% | 36% | 32% | 31% | 31% |
| A minor problem | 11% | 8% | 9% | 8% | 10% | 8% |
| Not a problem at all | 12% | 7% | 3% | 2% | 4% | 4% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 2% | 5% | 0% | 1% | 1% |
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| Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A significant crisis | 49% | 49% | 64% | 60% |
| A serious problem but not a crisis | 36% | 36% | 22% | 22% |
| A minor problem | 9% | 11% | 7% | 5% |
| Not a problem at all | 5% | 2% | 6% | 7% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 2% | 1% | 6% |
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| Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A significant crisis | 46% | 47% | 72% | 47% |
| A serious problem but not a crisis | 38% | 35% | 20% | 28% |
| A minor problem | 9% | 12% | 3% | 8% |
| Not a problem at all | 5% | 4% | 4% | 6% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 2% | 1% | 11% |
