LONDON — People in the world’s leading economies remain overwhelmingly nervous about returning to life as normal, even after having being vaccinated against COVID-19, a survey released on Thursday found.
A mid-year update of the Edelman Trust Barometer, which for two decades has polled thousands of people on their trust in core institutions, suggested that 65% of people described themselves as being “still in a pandemic mindset”.
Concretely, that meant that only 16% felt safe flying commercial airlines, 23% staying in hotels and 28% dining indoors in restaurants. In each case, those tallies rose only slightly among those who had been fully vaccinated.
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