Trust in CDC during coronavirus pandemic saw declines, survey suggests - Fox News

Public trust in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the coronavirus pandemic dropped between May and October 2020, a survey found, with the most significant decline reported among non-Hispanic White and Hispanic respondents.

The average drop in trust among respondents was by about 0.7 points or 10%, the researchers said.

"In the end, there is remarkable consistency and convergence in reported levels of trust in the CDC across these subgroups after the declines, with the exception of the vote intention comparisons," the researchers wrote. .

Survey respondents who said they intended to vote for now-President Joe Biden showed a small, non-significant decline in trust in the CDC, whole those who said they planned to vote for former President Donald Trump, someone else, or not at all showed "significant and substantial declines in trust.".

"These surveys show that the CDC will need some perception rehabilitation, particularly among those who reported intending to vote for someone other than Biden or not vote at all (who had low levels of initial trust that declined even further)," the researchers said.  "Although we know that the Black community has had low trust in the CDC, it is now similarly low across all of the groups."