After weeks underwater, the public’s approval of President Trump’s response to the coronavirus has steadily increased, with a new ABC News poll finding 55% of the nation now approving. Just a week ago, the majority disapproved.

A significant factor here, obviously, is just Trump’s behavior. After a month of trying to downplay the pandemic, Trump is finally demonstrating that he’s taking it seriously. Although Trump’s initial instinct to restrict travel from China was eminently correct, he spent a month dangerously downplaying the virus. Prior to any of the quarantining chaos or market crashes, Trump boasted that we had the coronavirus “very much under control” and that “we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time.” But since the coronavirus blew up into a full pandemic, Trump has changed his tune, now holding nearly daily briefings with widely respected health officials.