Since the end of its controversial and strict “zero-COVID” policy, there have been a surge of new cases in China, causing the United States to implement a new rule requiring travelers from China to have a negative COVID test before entering the U.S.A policy going over well with Americans with 79% saying they somewhat (22%) or strongly (57%) support the plan. The support is bipartisan with 89% of Democrats snd 79% of Republicans approving of the restriction.
The U.S. is experiencing a surge in new cases of an Omicron variant of COVID-19 called XBB.1.5 despite new restrictions being put on travelers. 75% of Americans say they heard of a new sub-variant spreading but few are worried. Just 48% say they are worried about someone in their household catching COVID and a majority of Americans say the worst of the pandemic is behind us. only 15% say it will get worse and 9% say we are in the worst of it now.
The house of representatives newly taken over by the Republicans after the midterm elections, a special investigative panel was formed to study the origins of the pandemic and the response to it by the government. YouGov/Economist polling says that more Americans are convinced that the virus responsible was from a lab in China and not a wet market. 62% of Americans polled say its “probable” that the virus was from a Chinese Laboratory. A poll from YouGov/Economist in 2021 with different wording found that 58% believed that then. In May 2022 49% believed it. Indicating growing support of the theory.