Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. parents (39 percent) know children who’ve been forced to quarantine because of COVID-19 since the start of this school year, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — and roughly a quarter (23 percent) say the virus has sent their own kids home from class.
The survey of 1,640 U.S. adults, conducted from Oct. 1 to 4, highlights the vast impact that America’s latest COVID wave has had even on Americans who haven’t fallen ill themselves — like schoolchildren and working parents.
The poll also shows that despite all the sound and fury over masks and mandates, most Americans have largely come to accept both as valuable