Nearly 1 in 3 people in the United States said they would or probably would not get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new survey.
The poll, released Wednesday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found that 15 percent of respondents in the survey said they would “definitely” not get a coronavirus vaccine. Seventeen percent said they are unlikely to get the vaccine.
Sixty-seven percent of respondents said they plan to be vaccinated or have already received a vaccination, including 19 percent who said they “probably will,” 35 percent who said they “definitely will.” , and 13 percent who said they had already gotten their shot.
The poll found that people aged 30-44, Republican voters and people without college degrees were the most likely to say they would ‘definitely not’ get a COVID-19 vaccine if they were available. not.
Fifty-seven percent of Black Americans said according to the poll that they had received the vaccine, or that they would be “definitely or likely” vaccinated. Sixty-eight percent of white respondents and 65 percent of Spanish respondents agree.
Among those who said they did not intend to receive the vaccine, 60 percent cited concerns about possible side effects. Forty-eight percent said they “intend to wait to see if it is safe” and that they may get it later.
Anthony Fauci
Anthony FauciObama urges Americans to be vaccinated in tweets about misinformation. Health officials warn of eradication of COVID-19 unlikely Modified AstraZeneca vaccine expected on South African tribe by autumn, says researcher MORE, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, predicted that achieving herd immunity to the coronavirus could require up to 90 percent of the population to be vaccinated. He previously estimated that herd immunity should vaccinate more than 75 percent of the country.
“When polls say only half of all Americans are going to take a vaccine, I said herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Fauci told The New York Times in December. “When newer recordings said that 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can do it a little bit’, so I went to 80, 85. ‘
More than 33 million people in the U.S. have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, representing more than 10 percent of the country’s total population.
The poll surveyed 1,055 adults in the U.S. between Jan. 28 and Feb. 1. It has an error margin of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.