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Lack of Preparedness Among Top Reactions Americans Have to Public Health Officials’ COVID-19 Response
Americans’ ratings of communication efforts by public health officials are closely divided
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- Lack of Preparedness Among Top Reactions Americans Have to Public Health Officials’ COVID-19 Response
- Public health officials get mixed ratings for the job they’ve done communicating about COVID-19
- Majority of Americans say false and misleading information contributed a lot to problems with the country’s coronavirus response
- Republicans, Democrats agree that false and misleading information contributed to problems the country faced dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak
- Democrats view Dr. Fauci’s impact on coronavirus response more positively than Republicans
- 54% of Americans say the CDC is doing an excellent or good job responding to the COVID-19 outbreak
- Partisans continue to differ in ratings of public health officials
- Americans’ ratings of communication efforts by public health officials are closely divided
- Lack of preparedness among top statements Americans use to describe public health officials’ response to the coronavirus outbreak
- Republicans more likely than Democrats to say that public health officials’ personal views had too much influence on policy
- Most Americans do not anticipate a major setback from new COVID-19 variants
- Declining share of Americans express concern about getting a serious case of COVID-19
- Black and Hispanic adults more concerned than White adults about getting a serious case of COVID-19
- Among U.S. adults, about half say they will probably get an updated vaccine booster or already have
- About seven-in-ten Americans say they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19
- American Trends Panel recruitment surveys
- Invitation and reminder dates
- Weighting dimensions
- Margins of error
- Response rates
- White evangelical Protestants less likely than other religious groups to say they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19