The Disproportionate Impacts of COVID-19 On LGBTQ Households in The U.S. : Result From A July/August 2020 National Poll

This report's findings are based on a polling series called The Impact of Coronavirus on Households, conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (NPR/RWJF/Harvard). As reported by Harvard, "Interviews were conducted online and via telephone (cellphone and landline), July 1-August 3, 2020, among a nationally representative, probability-based sample of 3,454 adults age 18 or older in the U.S. Data collection was conducted in English and Spanish by SSRS (Glen Mills, PA), an independent research company. The margin of sampling error, including the design effect, was ±3.3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level for national data." Of the total sample of 3,454 adults, 353 identified as LGBTQ. This report details the experiences of those LGBTQ individuals and their households.