HealthExec December 9, 2025
The American public’s trust in healthcare institutions, long a warmly extended expression of affection, fell off a cliff after the COVID-19 crisis. Tellingly, in national polling, local health officials took an even harder hit than the CDC.
The latter may be catching up in the race to the bottom, thanks to the ongoing upheaval over vaccine recommendations under the HHS headship of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Regardless, two and a half years after the end of the COVID-era public health emergency, healthcare consumers’ confidence in medical experts other than their own physicians still hasn’t climbed back up by much if at all.
Two academic physicians have analyzed the situation and now propose a treatment pathway for the...







