{"id":12793,"date":"2020-08-07T06:24:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=12793"},"modified":"2020-08-07T06:24:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:24:42","slug":"fauci-cuomo-top-trump-as-reliable-sources-on-covid-19-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=12793","title":{"rendered":"Fauci, Cuomo Top Trump as Reliable Sources on COVID-19: Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"News_list_rdr art\">\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<h3>Latest Prevention &amp; Wellness News<\/h3>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"News Picture: Fauci, Cuomo Top Trump as Reliable Sources on COVID-19: Survey\" class=\"healthday_image\" src=\"https:\/\/media.healthday.com\/Images\/icimages\/fauci330.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Aug. 5, 2020 (HealthDay News)<\/p>\n<p>Despite facing continued criticism from the Trump administration, Dr. Anthony Fauci is still the considered best source for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"dt\">COVID-19<\/a> information, an online poll finds.<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of Americans say federal, state and local governments are doing a poor job of responding to the coronavirus pandemic &#8212; and a shrinking number see President Donald Trump as a reliable information source.<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted June 19-26 by the University of Southern California&#8217;s Center for the Digital Future as a follow-up to an April study. The new findings revealed 44% of Americans rely on Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/allergy\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"dt\">Allergy<\/a> and Infectious Diseases, more than anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>After Fauci, people rely on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (19%); CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta or their local mayor (16%); and coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx (15%).<\/p>\n<p>In the June survey, 12% of Americans trusted Trump for reliable pandemic information, down from 20% in April.<\/p>\n<p>Two percent of liberals and 29% of conservatives said they relied on the president, though he was tops among 40% who identified themselves as very conservative.<\/p>\n<p>Fewer had faith in any governmental response to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-three percent said the federal response was poor &#8212; up from 39% in April. Eighteen percent called state and local response poor in June &#8212; up from 14% in April.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 28% called the federal government&#8217;s response good or excellent &#8212; down from 33% in April.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 people participated in the online poll. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steven Reinberg<\/p>\n<p class=\"credits\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MedicalNews\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\" style=\"border: none;\"\/><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2020 HealthDay. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>                            <!--CONTINUEREADING--><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>References<span class=\"icon-search\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                                    SOURCE:University of Southern California, news release, Aug. 5, 2020                            &#13;\n                                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=245174\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Latest Prevention &amp; Wellness News &#13; WEDNESDAY, Aug. 5, 2020 (HealthDay News) Despite facing continued criticism from the Trump administration, Dr. Anthony Fauci is still the considered best source for COVID-19 information, an online poll finds. A growing number of Americans say federal, state and local governments are doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-life-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1596698165_fb-mnet-default.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}