Dec 17, 2020
Thinking Citizen Blog — Who wants to get vaccinated?
Thinking Citizen Blog — Thursday is Health, Health Care and Global Health Policy Day
Today’s Topic — Who wants to get vaccinated? Confidence fell from May to September but is rising again
I was recently shocked to learn that a survey of American nurses conducted in early October showed that only 34% would get vaccinated if their employer did not require it. So I decided to do a little more poking around and found out that the September Pew Research Survey of general American public opinion on the subject was that the percentage who would “definitely” get a vaccine had fallen in half between May and September — from 42% to 21%. If you count both “definitely” and “probably,” the percentage had fallen from 72% to 51%. The pattern of decline was visible across all political and ethnic groups. But then in the December, confidence bounced back. How fickle will opinion be in the future? Today, a few more details from the latest Pew Survey — on vaccination intentions, comfort levels with different activities, and mask usage. Experts — please chime in. Correct, elaborate, elucidate.
ASIANS, HISPANICS, WHITES, BLACKS: would probably or definitely get the vaccine
1. Asians: from 91% in May to 72% in September to 83% in December
2. Hispanics: 74% to 56% to 63%
3. Whites: 74% to 52% to 61%
4. Blacks: 54% to 32% to 42%
BY AGE GROUP: would probably or definitely get the vaccine
1. 65+: 84% in May to 58% in September to 75% in December
2. 18–29: 72% to 56% to 60%
3. 50–64: 68% to 48% to 55%
4. 30–49: 68% to 46% to 53%
COMFORT LEVELS WITH DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES
1. Going to the grocery store: 75%
2. Barber shop or hair salon: 53%
3. Eating out in a restaurant: 44%
NB: Mask usage: up from 53% to May to 91% in December.
Pulse on the Nation’s Nurses COVID-19 Survey Series: COVID-19 Vaccine
U.S. Public Now Divided Over Whether To Get COVID-19 Vaccine
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YOUR TURN
Please share the most interesting thing you learned in the last week related to health, health care or health care policy — the ethics, economics, politics, history…. Or the coolest, most important thing you learned in your life related to health are or health care policy that the rest of us may have missed.Or just some random health-related fact that blew you away.
This is your chance to make some one’s day. Or to cement in your mind something really important.
