Trust in Science and Medicine? P2
Fall 2025
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Surveys of shifting U.S. attitudes reveal concerning trends — and some surprises
By January 2022, when about three-quarters of Americans had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the percentage of Americans who said they had a lot of confidence in doctors and hospitals had dropped to 57 percent, and confidence continued to decline from there. In the most recent survey conducted by the research group (which is now called the Civic Health and Institutions Project, or CHIP50), in April 2025, confidence in hospitals and doctors stood at just over 40 percent. The decline in trust in scientists and researchers has been only slightly less dramatic, from 58 percent in April 2020 to about 36 percent in April 2025.
Roy Perlis, MD ’97, one of the principal investigators of the project, says the initial goal of this research was to gauge how reactions to the pandemic varied from state to state. “Individual states were handling the pandemic very differently,” he says. “We wanted to understand how people in different states were responding to all aspects of the pandemic.”
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