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Americans most trust Fauci, Cuomo on coronavirus response: Insider poll - Business Insider
Americans trust Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious-disease expert, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo the most for official information and guidance on the COVID-19 outbreak, a new Insider poll showed.
Insider asked poll respondents to rate 10 top Trump administration officials and governors on trustworthiness.
We asked respondents: "When it comes to the official advice regarding coronavirus, please rate how much you trust the following messengers on a scale on 1 to 5."
According to our poll, 1 means strongly distrust, 2 means somewhat distrust, 3 means neither trust nor distrust, 4 means somewhat trust, and 5 means strongly trust. Participants were asked to mark "NA" if they were unfamiliar with the person.
Fauci and Cuomo received the highest marks, and President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin got the lowest:
- Respondents gave Fauci an average score of 3.84 out of 5 for trustworthiness. He received a top score of 5 from 40% of respondents, which is nearly double what the next highest-rated person got, and 86% gave him a 3 or higher, which is vastly higher than anyone else.
- Cuomo received an average score of 3.29 out of 5. Three-quarters of respondents gave Cuomo a score of 3 or higher, and 22% gave him 5 out of 5.
- Global-health Ambassador Deborah Birx, the response coordinator of the coronavirus task force, got a score of 3.14 out of 5. About three in four respondents gave Birx a score of three or higher.
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom got an average score of 2.97 out of 5. Just shy of 70% of people gave Newsom a score of 3 or higher.
- Former Vice President Joe Biden, the frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic nomination, got an average score of 2.76 out of 5. About 31% of respondents rated Biden a 4 or 5, 27% a gave him a 3 of 5, and 42% answered with a 1 or 2.
- Vice President Mike Pence was rated a 2.65 out of 5 on average for trustworthiness. About one-third of respondents rated him a 1.
- Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar was rated 2.62 out of 5.
- President Donald Trump scored 2.56 out of 5 on average. Forty-four percent of respondents rated Trump a 1 out of 5, compared with 20% who rated him a 5 out of 5. The largest group of people — 55% — rated Trump as a 1 or 2.
- Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin got the lowest score out of the 10 officials, with a rating of 2.52 out of 5 on average.