Dr. Lucia Abascal works a contact tracing shift for UCSF and speaks with Covid-19 patients from her home in San Francisco, June 25, 2020. | Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

A new Pew survey found 41 percent of people said they were not very likely to talk to a public health official about the coronavirus.

Reluctance to share information about coronavirus infections or contacts seems to run deep in the US — all the way to the White House, where an investigation into the spread of the virus there was called off soon after the outbreak was discovered.

According to results from a survey released Friday by the Pew Research Center, 41 percent of adults surveyed said they would be “not at all” or “not too likely” to talk to a public health official by phone or text message