People are increasingly unhappy with their nation’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a new Pew Research Center survey finds.
In the new survey, 41% of respondents in the United States said that their country had done a good job of handling the pandemic. That was down from 47% in a similar survey in June.
Pew surveyed 4,069 adults across the U.S., the United Kingdom, France, and Germany from Nov. 10 to Dec. 23, 2020.
France and Germany also saw declines. In June, 59% of French people and 88% of Germans said their country was handling the pandemic well. Those numbers have now dropped to 54% and 77%, respectively.
In the U.K., 48% said their nation was doing a good job in December, largely unchanged from 46% in June.
The decline in positive responses to the handling of the pandemic may be driven by the increase in the number of people saying that the pandemic had affected them either a great deal or a fair amount, which rose from 67% to 74% in the U.S., 46% to 67% in France, and 39% to 47% in Germany. The U.K. saw the smallest change, from 66% to 70%.
