Fifty percent of likely U.S. voters have lost trust in public health officials due to the way the government handled the COVID pandemic. Thirty percent said the response caused them to have increased trust while 18 percent said it didn’t have much of an impact on their trust.
Fifty-three percent of voters said they have less trust in the media due to the way the media covered the COVID pandemic. Only 23 percent said coverage of COVID increased their trust in the media.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the government’s COVID policy experts “were wrong about almost everything.”
Fifty-nine percent of voters agreed with that statement. Thirty-four percent disagreed.
There is a big partisan divide on the topic. Sixty-seven percent of Republicans and 58 percent of unaffiliated voters said they have less trust in public health officials. Just 27 percent of Democrats feel the same. Forty-nine percent of Democrats have more trust, but just 18 percent of Republicans and 20 percent of unaffiliated voters agree.
