The government has always insisted it is guided by the science - but Prime Minister Boris Johnson has often given dates when expressing hope about the future of the pandemic, for example saying things will be better by Easter and being hopeful about summer holidays.
Just 26 of people said they trusted social media as a source of information about the virus.
A trial is underway to find the effects of giving people a mix of two different vaccines which could be of significant help if there are disruptions to supplies.
Newsmax beats Fox News for first time ever in ratings.
Much of the data in this publication was collected before the virus hit many of the countries featured in this survey, so to a large extent this represents a snapshot of these historic trends.
The Prime Minister celebrated the rollout of the Oxford University AstraZeneca vaccine, which began on Jan 4, with an 82-year-old man in Oxford the first to receive it.