| The delta variant's two-month surge has generated a sharp rise in public fears about contracting the coronavirus, undermined confidence in President Biden's leadership and renewed divisions over vaccine and mask mandates, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Nearly half of Americans, 47 percent, rate their risk of getting sick from the coronavirus as moderate or high, up 18 percentage points from late June. This follows a more than tenfold increase in daily infections. | 
