COVID-19

“Lee and Macedo criticize the intense moral loathing and intolerance on both sides of the aisle. They are weary of the inability among Republicans and Democrats to see that people can reasonably disagree about complex scientific issues.” - L&L

“Nearly half (45 percent) of parents surveyed observe a negative impact of the pandemic on their school-age children. Out of that figure, roughly 22 percent say social difficulty is ongoing.

“Looking back, nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults (72%) say the pandemic did more to drive the country apart than to bring it together.” - Pew

“Three years later, Americans have largely returned to normal activities, but challenges with mental health remain.” - Pew

“These were the folks that were more on the fringes to begin with,” said Cox [American Enterprise Institute]. “They didn’t need much of a push or a nudge, to just be done completely.” - RNS

“For mothers whose youngest child was age 5 to 12, average time spent on secondary care increased by about 2.5 hours from 2019 to 2020, from an average of 5.8 to 8.2 hours a day, before dipping to an average of 7.1 hours a day in 2021.” - Pew

“The ‘association between attending in-person worship during lockdown and later testing positive for COVID-19 was limited primarily to those who were not previously frequent worship attendees,’ according to a study published in the American Sociological Association journal Socius.” - C.Today

“Among parents who had a child age 5 to 11 at the outset of the pandemic, the share who said this child used TikTok rose 11 percentage points (21% in 2020 to 32% in 2021). For parents with a child who was younger than 5 at the time of the first interview, there was a 4-point uptick from 1% to 5%.” - Pew

“The number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus has fallen more than 90% in more than two months, and some hospitals are going days without a single COVID-19 patient in the ICU for the first time since early 2020.” - C.Index