Table 4.

Parents’ level of trust in sources of information.

How much do you trust the following sources of information about the coronavirus vaccine?*
	Trust Completely	Trust Mostly	Trust Somewhat	Do Not Trust	Not Applicable
Sources of information about coronavirus vaccine
Child’s doctor	35.7%	36.1%	21.3%	4.4%	2.5%
Child’s school or school district	9.9%	23.4%	35.6%	17.6%	13.6%
Your local public health department	11.4%	31.4%	40.9%	15.4%	0.8%
The CDC	21.1%	29.0%	29.5%	19.8%	0.7%
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)	18.6%	29.1%	35.0%	15.1%	2.3%
Your close friends and members of your family	5.8%	24.0%	50.7%	18.4%	1.1%
Your coworkers, classmates, other acquaintances	2.2%	14.4%	48.6%	32.5%	2.3%
Social media (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter)	0.9%	3.7%	33.7%	59.9%	1.9%
Vaccine approval or development process
Government approval process for COVID-19 vaccine for child	9.3%	30.0%	28.3%	32.4%	-
Vaccine development process in general for child	12.8%	34.1%	29.0%	24.1%	-

^*The parent-child pair was the unit of analysis. Parents’ sampling weights were used in the analyses to account for design effects.