more Americans are believing misinformation about covid-19 vaccines that's according to a new poll released Thursday by the idenburg public policy Center it found that more than 20% of the 1500 people surveyed believe it's safer to get infected by covid-19 than by getting the vaccine the center has been tracking public perception of covid vaccines over the past three years it found that people's acceptance of vaccine misinformation has risen during that time and that the willingness to get vaccinated has dropped doctors Across the Nation are seeing a summer surge of covid-19 infections and hospitalizations due to the disease now just last week the FDA approved an updated covid-19 vaccine for people 6 months and older