COVID-19 and the Experiences of Populations at Greater Risk: Wave 1 General Population, United States, 2020-2021

In the context of COVID-19, RAND and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have partnered to
build from the National Survey of Health Attitudes to implement a longitudinal survey to
understand how health views and values have been affected by the experience of the
pandemic, with particular focus on populations deemed vulnerable or underserved, including
people of color and those from low-to moderate-income backgrounds.Questions in this COVID-19 survey focused specifically
on experiences related to the pandemic (e.g., financial, physical, emotional),
how respondents viewed the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic, whether
and how respondents' views and priorities regarding health actions and
investments are changing (including the roles of government and the private
sector), and how general values about such issues as freedom and racism may be
related to pandemic views and response expectations.This study
includes the results for Wave 1 for the general population.Demographic information includes sex, marital status, household size, race and ethnicity, family income, employment status, age, and census region.