While the vast majority of Americans trust the public health information they are getting from their own primary care physicians and organizations such as the AMA, nearly three in five say they do not have confidence in the advice they are hearing from the leaders of federal agencies.

Those sobering findings are the result of a nationally representative poll of nearly 1,700 U.S. adults conducted in February by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center.

My latest for the AMA. Read the whole shebang.