Doctors and nurses can be great vaccine messengers

By the numbers: Nearly nine in 10 physicians and nurses with graduate degrees report either already being vaccinated or planning to get a vaccine.

• Large majorities of other health care professionals who diagnose and treat patients say they are already vaccinated or plan to be.

Why it matters: Throughout the pandemic, majorities of American adults have said their doctors and nurses were their most trusted sources of information about the coronavirus.

• Eight in 10 have said their doctors are the ones they will turn to when deciding whether to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

The bottom line: Because they are such trusted messengers, doctors and nurses are in a special position to put their voices where their arms have already been:

• They can get the word out that they have been vaccinated and encourage their communities to get vaccinated, too.

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