Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Table of Contents

• Report Summary
• Executive Summary
• Reading Notes
• 1. Public Health/Economic Trade-Off
• 2. Media and Other Sources of Information About the Coronavirus
• 3. Knowledge
• 4. Behavioral Responses
• 5. Social Norms
• 6. Efficacy and Solvability
• Appendix I: COVID-19 Factsheet
• Appendix II: Data Tables
• Appendix III: Survey Method
• Appendix IV: Sample Demographics

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Citation

Ballew, M., Bergquist, P., Goldberg, M., Gustafson, A., Kotcher, J., Marlon, J., Roess, A., Rosenthal, S., Maibach, E., & Leiserowitz, A. (2020). American Public Responses to COVID-19, April 2020. Yale University and George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

Funding Sources

The research was funded by the Catalyst Fund at the Yale School of the Environment.