AXIOS March 11, 2025
Adriel Bettelheim, Margaret Talev

Five years after the COVID pandemic began, its legacy is as much political as epidemiological, according to a comprehensive new Axios-Ipsos poll, with Americans’ views of what happened cleaved by partisanship and media preferences.

The big picture: 39% say they know someone who died. Everybody wants to leave the era behind. Yet two-thirds of Americans don’t believe the nation is adequately prepared to deal with another pandemic or widespread health crisis, according to the Axios-Ipsos American Health Index.

  • Trust in public health institutions and leaders divided, declined and never fully recovered.
  • Today, just 31% of Americans (67% of Republicans, 7% of Democrats, 22% of independents) say they trust President Trump for information about health topics. Trust in Health and...

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Topics: Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Survey / Study, Trends
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