Initial Coronavirus Response: Hospitals Rated Best, News Media Worst

When it comes to Covid-19 and the response to the pandemic, Americans strongly approve of their hospitals, schools, and day care facilities....but not the news media.

Gallup

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans are generally positive in their evaluations of how each of nine leaders and institutions has handled the response to the coronavirus situation. Eight of the nine receive majority positive ratings -- led by U.S. hospitals, at 88% approval. Only the news media gets a more negative than positive review.

These data are from a March 13-22 Gallup poll, with the field period starting on the same day President Donald Trump declared a national emergency over the coronavirus outbreak, and spanning sharp increases in the number of documented cases in the U.S., as well as the number of deaths.

About four in five Americans approve of the way their state government and government agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health are handling the coronavirus outbreak. Similarly, 83% of parents of children younger than 18 rate their children's school or daycare positively for its handling of the situation. And 82% of U.S. workers rate their employer's response positively.

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Hospitals, Day cares, schools, and employers are highly ranked in their response to the Covid crisis.

The news media is ranked dead last.