Could the CDC be one of the most mistrusted government institutions? Sure, that’s a bold statement, since so many of our institutions are wrought with fraud, but after all the lies and propaganda that went down with COVID, the CDC took a huge hit.
The CDC was founded in 1946. It started to control malaria during WWII, and was supposed to protect public health from infectious disease. That was the original mission. Very straightforward, practical, and easy for ordinary people to understand and support.
Those were the good ol’ days. Now look at it.
That’s why for millions of Americans, the CDC isn’t some trusted public health group. It now just another bloated political institution that allowed the COVID fiasco to destroy its last bit of credibility. These were the people who lectured the country about (useless) masks and a sketchy vaccine. They silenced dissent like medical gestapos, buried facts that didn’t mesh with their political agenda, changed the rules as they went, and acted like anyone who asked questions was some kind of dangerous Q-kook. They exposed themselves, and once that happened, a lot of Americans stopped seeing “experts” and started seeing activists in lab coats.
Trust is dropping like a sack of hammers.
A poll published Thursday found that Americans have lost trust in federal health institutions and are more likely to say they trust independent, professional medical organizations when it comes to advice on topics like vaccination.
The February survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that public trust in agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had fallen by 5 to 7 percentage points in the past year.
Public trust in these institutions had been declining prior to 2025, however, having fallen from around 75 percent to 67 percent during the final year of the Biden administration.
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