New Polls Finds Americans Are More Worried About Inflation Than COVID

Americans are more worried about inflation and the rising cost of living than the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll. “Just 37% of Americans name the virus as one of their top five priorities for the government to work on in 2022, compared with 53% who said it was a leading priority at the same time a year ago,” the AP stated. “The economy outpaced the pandemic in the open-ended question, with 68% of respondents mentioning it in some way as a top 2022 concern. A similar percentage said the same last year,


