AND CLAUDIA DEANE
February 12, 2025
Source: PEW Research
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COVID-19 affected different groups of Americans in different ways
Adults under age 50 are more likely than their elders to say COVID-19 took a major toll on their lives – and to say they haven’t yet fully recovered from the pandemic. Many people in this younger group were finishing their schooling years or parenting young children when the pandemic hit. Still, the vast majority of people who died from COVID-19 in the United States were ages 50 and older, underscoring the range of health and social impacts COVID-19 had on Americans.
Women and Hispanics also are more likely than men and other racial and ethnic groups to say COVID-19 had a major impact on their lives. And Americans with lower incomes report suffering a major toll at a higher rate. Several data points from the pandemic highlight the differential impacts COVID-19 had on Americans:
In the early days of COVID-19, young adults were living with their parents at the highest levels since the Great Depression.
Among adults 25 and older who have no education beyond high school, more women left the labor force during the pandemic than men. And at multiple points during the pandemic, working mothers with children under 12 were more likely than working fathers in this category to say it was difficult to handle work and child care responsibilities.
About half of Hispanic adults (49%) said in March 2021 that they or someone in their household had lost a job or taken a pay cut because of the pandemic, higher than the share of U.S. adults overall who said the same. Younger adults also were more likely to experience job loss or pay reduction.
The pandemic also hit Black and Hispanic communities disproportionately hard in terms of mortality rates in the first year after the outbreak. And Black Americans remain much more likely than their White counterparts to say that COVID-19 remains a major threat to the health of the U.S. population today.
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