Interest in vaccinations increased after CDC announced new mask guidance

The data comes from vaccines.gov, where people look up vaccination sites by zip code. On the afternoon of May 13, just after Walensky's announcement, the number of visits to the site started to climb, hitting its second highest number of visitors since the website was launched on April 30. "It's amazing -- really amazing," said John Brownstein, co-founder of VaccineFinder, which powers vaccines.gov. A few hours after Walensky's announcement, Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, told CNN that "the decision that the CDC made was not as an incentive to get people vaccinated, but this could actually have the indirect effect of getting people to be incentivized to get vaccinated."