I hosted a follow-up group with Republican voters who were still hesitant about the COVID vaccine.

Their most common reason: “We don’t know the long-term side effects.”

https://wapo.st/2RP3aLI 

My focus group of vaccine-hesitant voters say the media is making COVID information more confusing.

“If you put on CNN and Fox News, you’ll get completely contradictory information."

I asked my group about former President Trump’s role in fast-tracking the COVID vaccine:

“They should call it the ‘Trump vaccine.’ Give the man some credit when it’s due.”

“They’re moving the target further and further down the road… It started with ‘2 weeks’ last year.”

My focus group isn’t convinced that getting vaccinated will let us finally return to normalcy.

Health officials must do a better job of stating the numbers to reach that goal.

As @DDiamond summarizes, my vaccine-hesitant group gave 3 key points to winning them over:

• Stop talking about possible COVID booster shots.

• Don’t bully people who are vaccine holdouts.

• Show us anyone besides Dr. Fauci. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/20/vaccine-hesitant-republicans/