Survey: Overwhelming Support For Sheltering At Home, Californians Say

Written by on July 8, 2020

And keeping kids at home .. keeping everyone at home … has overwhelming popular support across California.

Support for staying at home ranges above 75 percent.

The California Health Care Foundation says Californians still overwhelmingly support continuing to shelter in place as long as needed to curb the spread of coronavirus, The share of Californians who say the shelter-in-place order is being relaxed too quickly has increased from 43% three weeks ago to 53% in this survey.

More than 75% of Californians continue to say they follow recommended behaviors to slow the spread of the coronavirus “all” or “most” of the time.

89% of Californians say they routinely wear a mask in public spaces all or most of the time, about 12 percentage points higher than in late April

And 90% say they stay at least six feet away from others in public spaces all or most of the time.


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