COVID-19

“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

“Meanwhile, Pennsylvania truck driver Bob Bolus says he is leading a U.S. ‘Freedom Convoy’ of trucks from Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C., as soon as today with the goal of gridlocking the Capitol Beltway to protest vaccine mandates and Covid-19-related restrictions” - National Review

“When asked what factors schools should consider … most parents of K-12 students say a lot of consideration should be given to the possibility that students will fall behind academically (67%) or that their emotional well-being will be negatively impacted (61%) if they don’t attend school in person” - Pew