CDC Report Finds Public Has Questions about Vaccine Guidance

The CDC recently released Report 20 of their COVID-19 State of Vaccine Confidence Insights Report series. By examining how Americans think and feel, these reports emphasize major themes influencing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake, categorized by their level and type of threat to vaccine confidence, degree of spread, and directionality. Report 20 identifies that consumers and news outlets had questions and concerns about the Omicron variant. Additionally, the public continued to have questions and expressed frustration about vaccine guidance. Consumers also expressed growing interest in using alternatives to the COVID-19 vaccines, such as therapeutics and infection-acquired immunity.