Given the importance of the ongoing public debate about easing COVID-19 restrictions, we conducted an experiment on YouGov’s U.S. News Survey to better understand the complexity of opinion underlying a recent question about whether or not Americans are ready to get back to normal.

As a result of ongoing poll monitoring, YouGov is moving to a longer series of vaccination questions that ask for more specifics on doses.

Democrats are more likely than Republicans to report noticing extreme weather in both the 14 heat wave states (78% vs. 49%) and elsewhere in the U.S. (70% vs 33%).

Various enticements were most attractive to those already planning to get vaccinated, especially the prospect of getting easier access to things like travel, sports, entertainment and restaurants.

The ongoing campaign to vaccinate Americans against COVID–19 presents a new benchmark available to evaluate survey results.

Support is significantly higher with the $1.9 trillion price tag attached (58%) than with it omitted (51%), with the difference coming entirely from those who are not sure.

For some, knowing someone infected or killed by COVID-19 helped confirm early worries obtained from news accounts. For others, the lack of personal experience allowed the partisan political environment to play a larger role.

The surge in acceptance is largest among Democrats and Democratic leaners (21% to 73%), but acceptance has also grown among Republicans and Republican leaners (21% to 41%) and non-leaning Independents (18% to 42%).

Most Biden voters are convinced that the Supreme Court is conservative (72%) while Trump voters describe the Court as moderate (55%).

About the same number of Biden and Trump supporters said they “never” discuss politics with other people.