Results: A majority believes the pandemic is over but fears a future health crisis
Published on 03/10/2025
Source: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5182058-covid19-pandemic-health-worries-americans-survey/
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Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic led to nationwide business and school closures in the U.S., a consistent three out of five Americans believe the pandemic is over. Do you agree that the pandemic is over?
Yes
46%
1348 votes
No
25%
720 votes
Undecided
21%
623 votes
Not Applicable
7%
209 votes
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Nearly half of U.S. adults, 47%, report that their life is completely back to the normal that existed before the pandemic, while 13% expect to eventually return to pre-pandemic normalcy and 40% think life will never get back to normal. What do you think? My life is completely back to normal
33%
953 votes
My life is mostly back to normal and I expect it to continue that way
30%
884 votes
My life is returning to normal and I expect it to continue that way
11%
312 votes
My life is not back to normal and I don't expect it ever will be
15%
426 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
37 votes
Not Applicable
10%
288 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.15% | 4 | |
| the pandemics will come in waves. | 0.04% | 1 |
| What is normal ?.? | 0.04% | 1 |
| Not sure what qualifies as normal anymore. | 0.04% | 1 |
| my life is normal and I don't expect it to continue this way. | 0.04% | 1 |
| long term covid issues | 0.04% | 1 |
| I never went out of my way for this manufactured pandemic | 0.04% | 1 |
| I really don't know. | 0.04% | 1 |
| I lost my 97yrs old mother to COVID in 2021, my life will never be the same. | 0.04% | 1 |
| Sort of normal but worried about new outbreaks like bird flu | 0.04% | 1 |
| My life never changed | 0.04% | 1 |
| My (our) life is back to normal, but Covid did change some things in the world, and what was lost during Covid, can never be regained. | 0.04% | 1 |
| My life is back to a new normal | 0.04% | 1 |
| Yes, my life is back to normal, why not? Nothing to interrupt it. | 0.04% | 1 |
| We should all be at a "new normal" where we are more aware of who and what is around us. We cannot erect a safety shield around us, and we need to be more protective of who is nearing our personal spaces. COVID should have opened everyone's eyes. | 0.04% | 1 |
| I now live in a nursing home, and there is still occasional Covid popping up every so often here, so no, I don't think it's completely gone. | 0.04% | 1 |
| What does that mean? Normal? | 0.04% | 1 |
| My life is at a new normal using face masks | 0.04% | 1 |
| Now it feels normal but probably won't stay that way. | 0.04% | 1 |
| It's a new normal, you can never get back yesterday. | 0.04% | 1 |
| my life didn't change in the first place | 0.04% | 1 |
| My life well never be back to normal. | 0.04% | 1 |
| My life will not get back to prepsndemic because now I watch my grandkids who were born in the pandemic. | 0.04% | 1 |
| My life remained normal throughout. Everything else went insane. | 0.04% | 1 |
| my life is not back to normal, and i think it's the new-normal for me now | 0.04% | 1 |
| I still distance myself from people when in public, and I still use hand sanitizer. | 0.04% | 1 |
| What's normal these days? | 0.04% | 1 |
| I did not experience a major change at all. | 0.04% | 1 |
| My life will never return to what it was before 5he pandemic. I m not says that right . The way our life is ok n | 0.04% | 1 |
| WHAT IS NORMAL, IS THERE SUCH A THING??? | 0.04% | 1 |
| "Normal IS...? | 0.04% | 1 |
| Life is back to normal. Thank God, Allah, Buddha, and Jesus that I made the BEST DECISION EVER in my life to not get injected | 0.04% | 1 |
| I think something shifted in the universe and everything is off. | 0.04% | 1 |
| My life is mostly back to normal, but I don't expet it to continue that way. | 0.04% | 1 |
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More than seven in 10 U.S. adults, 72%, report having contracted COVID-19 at some point since 2020, while 28% say they have never had it. Did you contract COVID-19 at least once? Yes
41%
1198 votes
No
42%
1228 votes
Undecided
8%
233 votes
Not Applicable
8%
241 votes
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A majority of U.S. adults, 58%, are worried that there will be another global pandemic in their lifetime, including 16% who are "very worried" and 42% "somewhat worried." Another 26% of Americans are "not too worried," and 15% are "not worried at all." Are you concerned about a future pandemic in your lifetime? Very worried
20%
576 votes
Somewhat worried
33%
946 votes
Unsure/Neutral
16%
470 votes
Not too worried
13%
381 votes
Not worried at all
9%
256 votes
Other (please specify)
0%
13 votes
Not Applicable
9%
258 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.08% | 2 | |
| I won't be too concerned if another gain of function bioweapon is released again | 0.04% | 1 |
| Never going to happen! | 0.04% | 1 |
| I'm more trobled by there being a dee stae that woulld perpetrate a pademic...again! | 0.04% | 1 |
| they will plan another fake pandemic if they think people will fall for it. | 0.04% | 1 |
| Who knows what the next card will be that the ruling elite have up their sleeves. | 0.04% | 1 |
| I would prefer to die from COVID than under bombs ! | 0.04% | 1 |
| at the moment there are too many other things to worry about. | 0.04% | 1 |
| They will say that there is one, but like the other, no. | 0.04% | 1 |
| The pandemic completely changed my life and now I m on crutches and disabled | 0.04% | 1 |
| No need to worry when God has your back! | 0.04% | 1 |
| Pandemics happen every 50 years, I am 75 and maybe 10 further years to live- maybe susceptibility to some disease is possible. | 0.04% | 1 |
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