{"id":9813,"date":"2020-05-10T23:50:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T06:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=9813"},"modified":"2020-05-11T02:07:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T09:07:29","slug":"post1-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=9813","title":{"rendered":"“Americans more worried about reopening too quickly than not opening quickly enough, survey says”, USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rebecca Morin, May 8, 2020<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2013 As states around the country begin reopening<\/a>, a new survey suggests the majority of Americans\u00a0are more worried about social distancing measures being loosened too quickly than are worried about the country not reopening quickly enough.<\/p>\n

Nearly three out of four Americans \u2014 71% \u2014 say they are more concerned by the government lifting social distancing restrictions too quickly, according to a survey from the Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape Project. That’s more than double the 29% who say they are worried restrictions are not being lifted quickly enough.<\/p>\n

Even as some experts and medical projections have warned<\/a>\u00a0that coronavirus cases could spike if the country reopens too quickly, about 50% of states have partially reopened or loosened social distancing restrictions that were put in place to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. Other states have maintained stay-at-home orders and other restrictions with an eye on the still-growing number of cases nationally.<\/p>\n

And few Americans believe it\u2019s safe now for various social distancing restrictions to be scaled back, according to an analysis on Nationscape Insights, a project of Democracy Fund, UCLA, and USA TODAY, while the majority of Americans\u00a0think it won’t be safe for a combination of weeks or months.<\/p>\n