Trust in Medical Scientists

Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks at a White House
briefing on March 31, flanked by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Director Anthony Fauci. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Pew Research Center:

Trust in Medical Scientists Has Grown in the U.S., 

but Mainly Among Democrats

About six-in-ten believe social distancing measures are helping a lot to slow the spread of coronavirus in the nation

BY CARY FUNK, BRIAN KENNEDY AND COURTNEY JOHNSON

Pew Research Center conducted this study [ссылка — первое слово поста] to understand how Americans are continuing to respond to the coronavirus outbreak, their assessments of scientists and the role of scientific experts in policy. For most of the questions in this analysis, we surveyed 10,957 U.S. adults from April 29 to May 5, 2020. Questions about public confidence in scientists and medical scientists to act in the best interests of the public and questions about the ethical standards of medical doctors were asked in a survey of 10,139 U.S. adults from April 20 to 26, 2020.

Everyone who took part in either survey is a member of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATP’s methodology.

See here to read more about the questions used for this report, along with responses, and its methodology.




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