Public trust in healthcare workers is higher during this time than trust in public health institutions, including the CDC, FDA, and NIH
According to a new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, a large majority of the public (71%) favors substantially increasing federal spending on improving the nation’s public health programs. In addition, a similar share of the public (72%) believes the activities of public health agencies in the United States are extremely or very important to the health of the United States.