Unique survey tool closely tracked the pulse of the nation throughout the COVID-19 pandemic

Unique survey tool closely tracked the pulse of the nation throughout the COVID-19 pandemic

Meredith McGroarty,

Media report

Medical Xpress

2023

In the early, hectic days of the COVID-19 pandemic, government officials, scientists, researchers and the world at large were scrambling to understand (and contain) the virus. But some scholars were already turning their attention to how the crisis was affecting nearly every other facet of life, from young people's mental health to students' knowledge retention rates to the economic outlook for small business entrepreneurs. One tool proved particularly useful for researchers to quickly gather and synthesize data on the pandemic: the Understanding America Study (UAS), based at the Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.