Table 4.

Opportunities to promote vaccination.

Topic	Verbatim Comments from Vaccinated Respondents
Healthcare professionals should be leaders in getting vaccinated	I feel extremely confident on the safety and protection of the vaccine. Health care professionals should be a leader on getting the vaccine.
	EMS should be setting the example. I would argue if a provider doesn’t support the science behind the vaccine, then perhaps they are in the wrong profession.
	Lead by example.
Credible resources need to be available for COVID-19	There is a lot of misinformation and disinformation out there about the vaccine and COVID-19.
	There’s too much misinformation concerning the vaccines that has been made widely available and propagated.
	I think that getting the right information out is important.
Education about COVID-19 and vaccination should be provided	I was stunned by the number of people in EMS and nursing who do not understand how vaccination technologies work and spread misinformation
	I feel that a large portion of the general public is extremely uneducated about the vaccine.
	The social stigma around vaccines shows the public has a very low amount of knowledge about science and how a mRNA vaccine works.