A quarter of Americans distrust CDC recommendations, survey finds

About one-quarter of Americans say they trust the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's health recommendations "not very much" or "not at all," according to a new survey co-authored by the agency's researchers, four times worse than for doctors and nurses.

Of those surveyed, 37% said they have a "great deal" of trust in the CDC's health recommendations, and an additional 37% "somewhat" trust the agency. 16% have "not very much" trust in the CDC's recommendations, and 10% trust them "not at all."

The findings, published this week in the journal Health Affairs, are from a survey conducted in February 2022 examining the nation's trust in public health agencies in the wake of COVID-19.