Broad public confidence in how CDC, state and local officials are responding to coronavirus outbreak How confident are you that each is doing a goodjob responding to the coronavirus outbreak? (%)
The national survey by Pew Research Center – conducted March 10-16 among 8,914 adults using the Center’s American Trends Panel, in conjunction with the Center’s Election News Pathways project – finds widespread public confidence that public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local government officials are doing a good job in responding to the coronavirus outbreak.
More than eight-in-ten (83%) say they are very or somewhat confident that CDC officials are doing a good job, including 40% who are very confident. Most (73%) also say they are confident in state and local government officials.
The public is less confident in how President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are responding to the crisis: Fewer than half are very or somewhat confident that Trump (45%) and Pence (48%) are doing a good job responding to the crisis.
Broad public confidence in how CDC, state and local  | officials are responding to coronavirus outbreak  | How confident are you that each is doing a goodjob responding to the  | coronavirus outbreak? (%)  | Not  | Not  | Very  | Somewhat  | too at all  | Public health officials  | 40  | 43  | 12  | 5  | at the CDC  | Your state and local  | 19  | 24  | 49  | elected officials  | Mike Pence  | 22  | 26  | 22  | 28  | Donald Trump  | 24  | 21  | 16  | 38  | Note: No answer responses not shown.  | Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted March 10-16, 2020.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 