Americans are increasingly losing confidence in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Biden administration medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, according to polling data.
According to a new Gallup poll, one third of Americans believe that the COVID-19 pandemic is “over,” to which 66 percent disagreed.
However, along party lines, about 60 percent of registered Republican respondents believe the pandemic is over, compared to 10 percent of Democrats who disagreed with the statement. Among independent voters, 39 percent said that they believe the COVID-19 pandemic has ran its course.
A separate poll by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center in late January found that Americans are losing trust in the CDC, reported Newsweek.
The data showed that Fauci’s approval had also dropped to 65 percent — down from 71 percent in April 2021, in what the poll stated was a “statistically meaningful drop.”
Anthony Fauci and Joe Biden
In the January poll, over one third, 35 percent, of respondents had said they were not confident in Fauci anymore. In April 2021, that number 29 percent.
Among Democrats, confidence in the CDC had dropped from 94 percent to 89 percent. In the same time frame, Democrat trust for Fauci had dropped from 92 percent to 88 percent.
Among Republican respondents, nearly half (54 percent) said they do not support the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The polling data comes as Republicans such as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) have stated that they will investigate Fauci should the Republican Party retain a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives following the 2022 midterm elections.
“If the American people put us back in charge, we are definitely going to do this,” Jordan said.
Trump-backed Ohio Republican Senate prospect J.D. Vance had also recently stated that he seeks to push the Republican Party to impose term limits on federal bureaucrats like Fauci.
Fauci delivering an AIDS-related speech on August 14, 1985 (NIAID / Flickr)
“We need term limits not just for the legislators but for bureaucrats because ladies and gentlemen, all this talk about experts losing their expert status but there is an expert that not a single person in this room voted for that has far more power than anyone we ever did [vote for]… his name is Anthony Fauci,” Vance said.
CNN recently published an article titled “The quest for longer-lasting Covid-19 vaccines“, featuring public health officials, including Fauci, who suggested the controversial mRNA COVID-19 vaccines could be to blame for the prevalence of mutated coronavirus variants, thus casting doubt on the new vaccine technology, Valiant News reported on Tuesday.
“Some vaccine platforms give a very high degree of protection but the durability isn’t very long,” said Anthony Fauci to CNN, who they say had claimed “that the mRNA platform may be one of those.”
“We got a really great platform with mRNA,” Fauci said. “But let’s try to be better. Because our experience, maybe it’s peculiar to coronavirus, but I doubt it, is that the durability of the response you can be better on.”
