Faith in Trump, Moral Foundations, and Social Distancing Defiance during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Graham, Amanda; Cullen, Francis T.; Pickett, Justin T.; Jonson, Cheryl Lero; Haner, Murat; Sloan, Melissa M.

doi:10.1177/2378023120956815

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“…These can be conducted without risk of contracting coronavirus and, moreover, are swift, convenient, and cost effective. Internet samples of this sort have been widely used during the pandemic (Cornesse and Blom 2020;Graham et al 2020;McFadden 2020).…”

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Public opinion on coronavirus vaccination: Health Implications of Americans' surprisingly widespread acceptance of early Russian and Chinese vaccines

Kelley¹,

Evans²,

Corday³

2021

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In the US, new vaccines are banned until accepted as safe and effective by the FDA. But the approval process is slow and cautious. The faster, but perhaps riskier, Russian system (like the Chinese) produced an approved coronavirus vaccine months more quickly, leaving Americans at risk of dying for months longer than Russians. Despite widespread fears that many would be hesitant to accept vaccination at all, and understandable doubts about vaccine approval processes outside the US, data from two national surveys in September 2020 show, very surprisingly, that a majority of Americans at that time would have willingly taken the Russian vaccine. Moreover a two-to-one majority of Americans – rich and poor, young and old, Democrat and Republican alike – believed that they ought to be allowed to buy it. Based on those figures, we estimate that making the Russian vaccine (or the Chinese) immediately available would have saved 70 or more American lives each day in the autumn of 2020 and the beginning of 2021. To put that in context, US government prohibitions on Russian and Chinese vaccines cost more lives each day than the roughly 45 people killed daily by all American murderers combined. For the US government, a less authoritarian domestic policy, and a clearer appreciation of the globalization of medical technology, would seem to be indicated.

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Public opinion on coronavirus vaccination: Health Implications of Americans' surprisingly widespread acceptance of early Russian and Chinese vaccines

Kelley¹,

Evans²,

Corday³

2021

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“…These can be conducted without risk of contracting coronavirus and, moreover, are swift, convenient, and cost effective. Internet samples of this sort have been widely and successfully used during the pandemic (Cornesse and Blom 2020;Graham et al 2020;(eg McFadden 2020;Liotta, Marazzi, Orlando, & Palombi 2020).…”

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Crisis, plunge, and recovery of public confidence ?in the police: Data from six national surveys

Kelley¹,

Evans²,

Corday³

2021

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This paper depicts the trajectory of Americans' confidence in their police across five months before, during, and after the nation was riveted by Minnesota police murdering a Black civilian and the implications thereof for our civic community and our national commitment to equal protection. Data from the International Social Science Survey and the international WVS/EVS surveys show that Americans' confidence in their police is, on average, fairly typical of other advanced societies, coming 30th out of 110 nations worldwide. Within the US there was sharp political divergence. Democrats' confidence in the police plunged dramatically around the time of the killing, and then rebounded even more strongly later. But this was only among Democrats. Republicans' views were stable across the period. Regression analysis reveals that that this pattern holds controlling for social and demographic factors, including race. The patterns of change in confidence in the police were replicated for trust in the police. In addition, Blacks and Whites were equally confident in the police across most of the period, except that shortly after the murder Black's confidence plunged briefly and temporarily lower than their White peers'; the subsequent rebound in confidence was especially large among Blacks. Further multivariate analysis reveals that the degree of confidence people feel in the government as a whole is by far the largest determinant of how much confidence they feel in the police. Sociodemographic factors other than race play no clear role. Racial prejudice is irrelevant. In short, all this is mainly party politics.

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Public opinion on coronavirus vaccination 1: A majority of Americans would take the existing Russian vaccine and believe that they ought to be allowed to buy it

Kelley¹,

Evans²,

Corday³

2020

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In the US new vaccines are banned until shown to be safe and effective. But the approval process is slow and cautious and no vaccine has yet been approved. The faster but perhaps riskier Russian system produced an approved coronavirus vaccine months more quickly, leaving Americans at risk of dying for months longer than Russians. Our data from two national surveys in September show that a majority of Americans would willingly take the existing Russian vaccine and that a two-to-one majority – rich and poor, young and old, Democrat and Republican alike – believe that they ought to be allowed to do so. We estimate that making the Russian vaccine immediately available would save approximately 40 to 100 American lives each day after the first month and many more subsequently, To put the matter bluntly, current US government policy will kill some 40 to 100 people each day for a considerable period later this year and early next. To put those deaths in context, all American murderers combined kill only 45 people each day – not a record the US government should wish to emulate. There are also implications for the 2020 election; Since feelings about the Russian coronavirus vaccine are strongly favorable, and the benefits of allowing it in the US are large, making it available should be attractive politically. The Republican government has the power to adopt that policy and gain the credit. Alternatively, the Democratic opposition has the opportunity to advocate that policy, and claim the credit.

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Faith in Trump, Moral Foundations, and Social Distancing Defiance during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Cited by 75 publications

References 70 publications

Public opinion on coronavirus vaccination: Health Implications of Americans' surprisingly widespread acceptance of early Russian and Chinese vaccines

Public opinion on coronavirus vaccination: Health Implications of Americans' surprisingly widespread acceptance of early Russian and Chinese vaccines

Crisis, plunge, and recovery of public confidence ?in the police: Data from six national surveys

Public opinion on coronavirus vaccination 1: A majority of Americans would take the existing Russian vaccine and believe that they ought to be allowed to buy it

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