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Swine Flu Only Slightly Concerns Jersey Voters
By BRADLEY VASOLI, The Bulletin
A significant majority of New Jersey’s registered voters are only mildly worried, if at all, about the ailment known as H1N1 or “swine flu,” according to survey results from the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
While 41 percent of the state’s voters said they were at least somewhat concerned that either they or a loved one would acquire the illness, 58 percent said they are either not worried or only slightly concerned.
There seems to be no major rush to get vaccinated for swine flu, with two percent more New Jersey voters saying they won’t be vaccinated. Most parents with underage children, however, want to get their kids vaccinated.
Generally, though, the attention New Jersey voters give to the spread of swine flu doesn’t quite match the attention lavished on it by the major news media. Fifty-nine percent of the poll’s respondents called recent coverage of the ailment “overblown.”
The New Jersey state government expects to receive its first stockpiles of vaccines for the illness next week. Federal officials have said that anyone wishing to get vaccinated will be able to. Quinnipiac’s survey results suggest that the state’s electorate largely approves of the government’s actions.
“Is the reaction to a possible swine flu epidemic overblown?” Quinnipiac University Polling Institute Director Maurice Carroll said in a statement. “New Jersey voters think the government is behaving better than the news media.”
Seventeen New Jersey residents have died of H1N1. Over 1,000 residents have the condition.
Bradley Vasoli can be reached at bvasoli@thebulletin.us
While 41 percent of the state’s voters said they were at least somewhat concerned that either they or a loved one would acquire the illness, 58 percent said they are either not worried or only slightly concerned.
There seems to be no major rush to get vaccinated for swine flu, with two percent more New Jersey voters saying they won’t be vaccinated. Most parents with underage children, however, want to get their kids vaccinated.
Generally, though, the attention New Jersey voters give to the spread of swine flu doesn’t quite match the attention lavished on it by the major news media. Fifty-nine percent of the poll’s respondents called recent coverage of the ailment “overblown.”
The New Jersey state government expects to receive its first stockpiles of vaccines for the illness next week. Federal officials have said that anyone wishing to get vaccinated will be able to. Quinnipiac’s survey results suggest that the state’s electorate largely approves of the government’s actions.
“Is the reaction to a possible swine flu epidemic overblown?” Quinnipiac University Polling Institute Director Maurice Carroll said in a statement. “New Jersey voters think the government is behaving better than the news media.”
Seventeen New Jersey residents have died of H1N1. Over 1,000 residents have the condition.
Bradley Vasoli can be reached at bvasoli@thebulletin.us
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