The approaching flu season has caught the nation's attention with 55 percent of U.S. adults saying they plan to be inoculated once a vaccine for the swine flu becomes available, according to a Gallup poll conducted Aug. 26.
That's up from the 46 percent who said in early May they wanted to be vaccinated.
Down, though, is public confidence in the federal government's ability to deal with a flu outbreak, falling from 74 percent in early May to 60 percent Aug. 26.
"The overall decline in government confidence in handling an outbreak may be due in part to a loss of confidence in the Obama administration in general," Gallup said. "When the May poll was conducted, two in three Americans approved of the job Obama was doing as president, compared with only about half today."
The poll was based on telephone interviews with 1,007 adults nationwide and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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