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Healthcare workers' perception of COVID-19 misinformation

By the COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States

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Healthcare workers' perception of COVID-19 misinformation

Key takeaways

● The vast majority of healthcare workers perceive misinformation to be negatively influencing both patient decisions to get vaccinated against COVID-19 (72%), and patient care during the pandemic (71%). 

● A sizable plurality of healthcare workers - around a third - perceive misinformation as an “urgent” problem for patient healthcare during the pandemic, and also as the single most important factor influencing unvaccinated patients’ decision not to get the COVID-19 vaccine. 

● The most commonly cited sources of misinformation negatively impacting patient healthcare, according to healthcare workers, are social media (73%) - particularly Facebook - as well as family and friends (64%). 

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February 3, 2022

Why Biden has eased up on Facebook over COVID misinformation

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Published:
January
2022
Report Number:
77
Topic:
Misinformation
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