The COVID-19 pandemic significantly jeopardized public confidence in the World Health Organization, especially during the pandemic period – reports a study published in GHJournal.
further indicated that exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic harmed the WHO in terms of public trust by significantly decreasing the likelihood of people reporting confidence in the organization by half . The effect was still significant after controlling for multiple covariates .The effect of COVID-19 on public confidence in the WHO.
In terms of sex difference , significant effects were found in both the male sample and female sample in the multiple models, and the likelihood of confidence declined more in males .: Appendix Table S3). First, we used SM instead of SI to measure the severity of COVID-19 and performed the DID analysis again, and we still observed a significantly negative effect of the pandemic on confidence in the WHO after controlling for covariates .
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