Now that the majority of Americans aged 18 and older are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and restrictions meant to curb the spread of the disease are increasingly being rolled back, two-thirds of U.S. adults (66%) say their lives are either "somewhat" or "completely" back to normal.
While this marks a sharp reversal from October when a majority said their lives were not yet back to normal, few Americans -- 9% -- say life is completely back to normal, while 57% describe it as somewhat normal. The remaining 34% say normalcy has not yet returned...
As a sense of normalcy returns, Americans have become less likely to believe that the best advice for healthy people during the pandemic is to stay home to help prevent the spread of the virus, dropping from 91% in March 2020 to 67% at the start of this year to 44% now. In fact, for the first time in Gallup's COVID tracking, a majority (56%) say the better advice is for people to live their normal lives as much as possible.
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