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 by The Associated Press and Kaiser Health News, state and local health departments have been underfunded for decades. Despite that, public health officials have been on the front lines in a pandemic for almost a year. They’ve worked tirelessly, advised policy makers through every scientific development — and for their effort, they’ve been subjected to

Why don’t Americans trust the officials who study pandemics for a living? Is it our divided era? Or is something else going on in our collective psyche? Wednesday, MPR News host Kerri Miller spoke with two people who study how the public perceives public health. 

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Public health departments have never been more important — or more maligned. Why don’t many Americans believe the public health officials who are trying to protect them from a pandemic?

Why don’t Americans trust public health agencies?

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