Lockdown fatigue grows as COVID-19 cases break records

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Fewer people are open to sheltering at home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, according to Gallup polling, even though the number of infected is much higher now than last spring.

Fewer than half of the respondents in the Gallup poll, 49%, currently say they would be very likely to stay home for a month if public health officials recommended it due to a serious outbreak of the virus in their community. Over two-thirds, 67%, held that same view in early April as much of the nation was locked down.

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