One in five Americans fear they'll get monkeypox

One in five Americans are worried about getting monkeypox in the next three months, the Annenberg survey found.

Nearly half are unsure whether monkeypox is less contagious than COVID, although 69% correctly identified the way it usually spreads (through close contact with an infected person).

Two-thirds said they either don’t think there’s a vaccine for monkeypox, or aren’t sure. (There is a vaccine. The Biden administration said Thursday that it’s allocating another 786,000 doses, on top of the more than 340,000 it distributed this month.)

Women were more worried about contracting monkeypox than men, even though the overwhelming majority of cases in the U.S. have been among men.