Few U.S. adults say they’ve been diagnosed with coronavirus, but more than a quarter know someone who has

Only 2% of U.S. adults say they have been officially diagnosed with COVID-19, and 2% say they have taken a blood test that showed they have COVID-19 antibodies, an indication that they previously had the virus. But far more say they are “pretty sure” they had the virus despite not getting an official diagnosis or say they personally know someone who was diagnosed with it.

• Coronavirus death toll is heavily concentrated in Democratic congressional districts
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From 2019: From police to parole, black and white Americans differ widely in their views of criminal justice system

Protests in Minneapolis sparked by the death of a black man in police custody have refocused attention on the racial divide in views of the U.S. criminal justice system. Surveys in recent years have found black Americans are far more likely than whites to say the criminal justice system is racially biased and that its treatment of minorities is a serious national problem.

• Race in America 2019: Public has negative views of the country’s racial progress; more than half say Trump has made race relations worse

Fast facts about Americans’ views of social media companies as Trump-Twitter dispute grows

President Donald Trump this week signed an executive order aimed at discouraging social media companies from censoring posts. The order follows a decision by Twitter earlier in the week to add fact-checking labels to two of Trump’s tweets. Here are some fast facts about Americans’ attitudes toward social media companies, based on our surveys of U.S. adults fielded before the current controversy.

As Millennials near 40, they’re approaching family life differently than previous generations

Millennials are taking a different path in forming – or not forming – families of their own. They are less likely to be married, have children and live in a family unit than previous generations were at the same stage in life. Those who do get married or have children are doing so later in life.

Americans are critical of China’s handling of COVID-19, distrust information about it from Beijing

Nearly two-thirds of Americans say China has not handled the global pandemic well, rating its performance as the worst among the six countries asked about, alongside Italy. More than eight-in-ten Americans distrust information about the outbreak from the Chinese government, including nearly half who have no trust in it at all.

Around three-in-ten Americans are very confident they could fact-check news about COVID-19

Roughly six-in-ten online daters in the U.S. are concerned about data collection

From our research