Health Populi January 14, 2021
Citizens around the world unite around the concept that Trust is Dead.
This is no truer than in the U.S., where trust in every type of organization and expert has plummeted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, political and social strife, and an economic downturn.
Welcome to the sobering 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer, released this week as the world’s technology innovators and analysts are convening at CES 2021, and the annual JP Morgan Healthcare meetup virtually convened.
As the World Economic Forum succinctly put the situation, “2020 was the year of two equally destructive viruses: the pandemic and the infodemic.”
The trust reckoning in so much of the world has to do with the latter, what Edelman coins as...