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The pharmaceutical industry’s decline over the past year is the result of a 13-point drop in Republicans’ positive score, from 26% to 13%. This spans a period when some leading Republicans and conservative figures have been critical of the pharmaceutical industry generally, and of COVID-19 vaccines and booster shots specifically.
Republicans’ positive rating of the industry had surged to 45% in 2020 as pharmaceutical companies worked with the Trump administration to accelerate the deployment of COVID-19 vaccines. Even before that, Republicans’ positive view of the industry averaged 37% (from 2001 to 2019), nearly three times the current level. Democrats’ ratings of pharma averaged 31% across the same period, only slightly higher than today.