Yahoo! News/YouGov survey posted by Mediaite Thursday, Respondents were asked “Which comes closest to your view of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s impact during the pandemic?”, and given the choice of answering that “Fauci helped America more than he hurt America,” that “Fauci hurt America more than helped America,” or “not sure.”
The poll found that among all respondents, 46% said Fauci — the lead infectious disease expert on coronavirus task forces under both the Trump and Biden administrations — "helped America more than he hurt America," 30% said the opposite and 24% were undecided.
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Among GOP respondents, 61% said Fauci hurt America, while 22% said he helped and 18% were unsure.
Among Trump voters, 71% said Fauci hurt America.
Among people who haven't been vaccinated against COVID-19, 22% say Fauci helped, 43% say he hurt America, 35% weren't sure.
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In other findings, the poll showed:
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34% says most Americans are underestimating the risks of the virus; the same percentage believe Americans are behaving appropriately; 23% say most Americans are overreacting to the risks.
20% of respondents says they'll "never" take the COVID-19 vaccination.
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57% says they've been vaccinated, while those who said they would "never" get the vaccine make up 48% of the respondents who haven't been vaccinated.
12% plan to get vaccinated as soon as they can, 20% say they'll wait to see what happens to others, and 20% are "not sure."
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The threshold for achieving "herd immunity" is around 80%.
A report released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines are 94% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 — evidence the vaccine works as well as the clinical trials result promised.
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President Trump’s team has increasingly questioned Dr. Fauci’s track record, and this week the White House moved to strip the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of control over collection of data on the coronavirus’s spread.
All of this lines up with Mr. Trump’s attempts to speed up the reopening process, often in spite of his health advisers’ warnings. Presumably, Mr. Trump is playing the long game, hoping that a return to normal will bring the economy booming back in time for the November election and that the virus could either “fade away” or become preventable by a vaccine.
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As Mr. Trump and his allies in the conservative media have sown doubt about Dr. Fauci, many Republicans have in fact turned against the doctor. Back in May, a CNN poll found that by a two-to-one margin, Republicans said they trusted the information Dr. Fauci was providing. But on Wednesday, Quinnipiac University released a poll showing that 52 percent of Republicans now said they did not trust Dr. Fauci on the pandemic. Just 39 percent said they did.
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