{"id":8977,"date":"2021-06-10T08:59:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T13:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/global-views-of-how-u-s-has-handled-pandemic-have-improved-but-few-say-its-done-a-good-job\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:56:49","slug":"global-views-of-how-u-s-has-handled-pandemic-have-improved-but-few-say-its-done-a-good-job","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2021\/06\/10\/global-views-of-how-u-s-has-handled-pandemic-have-improved-but-few-say-its-done-a-good-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Global views of how U.S. has handled pandemic have improved, but few say it\u2019s done a good job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Families visit a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination site on June 5, 2021, in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of New York City. (Scott Heins\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As several coronavirus vaccines<\/a> have become available in many parts of the world<\/a>, the pandemic is still far from over<\/a> for most of the globe. How nations have handled COVID-19 remains a controversial issue, and a new Pew Research Center survey of 17 advanced economies shows mixed assessments for how well many of the major players developing and distributing vaccines have responded to the pandemic.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A median of just 37% think the United States has done a good job, and in all but Japan, Germany and Italy, the U.S. is the lowest rated among the five countries and organizations asked about in the survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the U.S. receives relatively poor marks compared with other countries and organizations when it comes to dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, favorable assessments of the U.S. response increased significantly in nearly all of 12 countries surveyed in both the summer of 2020<\/a> and 2021. (Data from the U.S. in 2020 is omitted due to mode changes.) In 2020, a median of 15% across these 12 countries said the U.S. had done a good job dealing with the outbreak, compared with 38% who say the same this year.<\/p>\n\n\n

How we did this<\/div>