The years of the COVID-19 pandemic have taken their toll on American institutions, including the public health infrastructure tasked with dealing with the pandemic. The media and information ecosystems brought forward a lot of incorrect information that have contributed to dangerous myths that remain today about vaccine safety, the virus and public health.\xa0
Feng Hao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Florida, where one of his areas of research is the COVID-19 pandemic response in the U.S. He is one of the lead researchers of a new study from USF on American attitudes toward COVID-19. He joined the podcast to discuss the survey.