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Opioids & obesity now ranked as top public health threats in new poll

Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:00 AM

(The Hill) – Americans have ranked opioids and obesity as the top threats to public health while ranking COVID-19 toward the bottom of the list, according to a new poll.

The new Axios-Ipsos poll found that 26 percent of Americans said opioids and fentanyl are the top public health threat, closely followed by 23 percent that said obesity is. Twenty percent listed access to firearms as the number one threat and 11 percent listed cancer.

Just 2 percent of Americans said COVID-19 was the top threat. This comes as COVID-19 cases have increased this summer, with some areas seeing hospitalizations triple due to the cases.

The full article is available at ozarksfirst.com.

(Story by Lauren Sforza, The Hill)

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