Vaccine Confidence in NYC: Thematic Analysis of Community Stories.

The vaccine community has produced extensive evidence on vaccine hesitancy, but research to understand the factors that affect public trust in vaccines and vaccine confidence among Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) remains limited. To enrich extant literature, we present themes from 332 stories collected from predominantly BIPOC communities in New York City that explored motivators for vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stories were collected by trained community health workers from December 2021 to June 2022.