Mint | January 7, 2022
“The public is losing trust in vaccines but I feel certain that over time trust will build and most people will be vaccinated,” said Lawrence O. Gostin, Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, in an email to Mint. “The problem was that public health officials promised that vaccines would prevent infections, but the Omicron variant has shown that vaccines don’t do a particularly good job at preventing breakthrough infections. We have to change the public health message.”