Omicron America: Keep calm and carry on
As the Omicron virus envelopes the United States, a Maru Public Opinion survey conducted for the American City Business Journals (ACBJ) finds a whopping one-in-six (17%) Americans who say someone in their immediate family or circle of friends have contracted COVID in the past 10 days.
But as health officials sound alarm bells and President Joe Biden pledges to deliver up to 500 million personal COVID test kits across the country, a comparison of the results to an identical set of questions asked back in the first week of December as the Omicron virus was emerging reveals that ,with just a couple of minor exceptions, Americans have hardly changed any of their attitudes and activities towards since.