Utah residents worrying less about COVID, ready to do away with mask mandates

OH Predictive Insights, a Phoenix-based research company, has released data concerning Utahns’ overall sentiment toward COVID-19, their concern levels and their support for lifting mask mandates. 

The Utah Public Opinion Pulse survey found that 36 percent of Utah residents are slightly or not at all concerned about COVID, statistically equal to the nearly two in five extremely or moderately concerned. Forty-two percent of Utahns said the expected to see improvement in the COVID-19 issue in the 30 days following the survey in mid-February, compared to only 17 percent of respondents who anticipate things will get worse.

Nearly half of poll respondents (47 percent) said they were in support of lifting all mask mandates, while 34 percent were opposed.