Dont know any COVID-19 patients whove died or been in the hospital? That may explain a lot. – The Philadelphia Inquirer

But a more fundamental reason for the uneven support of COVID-19 prevention measures may lie in simple math: Despite more than 200,000 deaths and 400,000 hospitalizations in the United States, an Inquirer analysis suggests that in much of the country, the typical person knows no one in either of those categories. (Surveys, including another one by Pew, have reached similar conclusions.)

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Dont know any COVID-19 patients whove died or been in the hospital? That may explain a lot. - The Philadelphia Inquirer