Opinion Today

November 30, 2021

COVID-19 Still Widely Named as Biggest U.S. Health Problem
Lydia Saad, Gallup
The coronavirus continues to dominate Americans' top-of-mind mentions of what constitutes the most urgent health problem facing the country today, but to a lesser extent than a year ago.

World's Trust in Science, Scientists Rises Amid Pandemic
Lance Stevens & Andrew Dugan, Gallup
Even before COVID-19 vaccines became widely available in 2021, the world was placing more trust in science and scientists than it did before the pandemic. A new report, Wellcome Global Monitor: How the World Views Science Amid COVID-19, reveals that more than four in 10 people worldwide in 2020 expressed "a lot" of trust in science (41%) and the scientists in their respective nation (43%). Both figures are up nine percentage points from the last Wellcome Global Monitor study in 2018.

Tracking the pandemic's unequal impact
Kate Marino, Axios
The pandemic was bound to hit the most economically vulnerable among us the hardest. New polling data…