How declining institutional trust makes it harder to address a pandemic...
[thefederalist.com]

Our ability to cope efficiently with the Wuhan virus is complicated by declining trust in institutions. In crises like a pandemic, media and government are our most important sources of information.

Consider these findings from a Pew survey last year, which reported, “About two-thirds (69%) of Americans say the federal government intentionally withholds important information from the public that it could safely release, and 61% say the news media intentionally ignores stories that are important to the public.”