Americans under the age of 50 were 20 percentage points more likely to say so.
Seventy-three percent of U.S. adults say the worst is yet to come.
The survey was conducted last week, when between 1,500 and 2,000 Americans were dying each day from COVID-19.
Overall, a majority of the public do think it is acceptable for elected officials to criticize the Trump administration's response.
Fifty-seven percent of U.S. adults now believe Trump is doing a poor or fair job of providing accurate information about the outbreak.
A little more than half of Americans believe that he is making the situation appear better than it really is.
The Pew survey was conducted from April 7 to April 12 and has an overall margin of error of 2.1 percentage points. »