Hesitancy Toward a COVID-19 Vaccine

The scientific community has come together in a mass mobilization to combat the public health risks of COVID-19, including efforts to develop a vaccine. However, the success of any vaccine depends on the share of the population that gets vaccinated. We designed a survey experiment in which a nationa...

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description The scientific community has come together in a mass mobilization to combat the public health risks of COVID-19, including efforts to develop a vaccine. However, the success of any vaccine depends on the share of the population that gets vaccinated. We designed a survey experiment in which a nationally representative sample of 3,133 adults in the USA stated their intentions to vaccinate themselves and their children for COVID-19. The factors that we varied across treatments were: the stated severity and infectiousness of COVID-19 and the stated source of the risk information (White House or the Centers for Disease Control). We find that 20% of people in the USA intend to decline the vaccine. We find no statistically significant effect on vaccine intentions from the severity of COVID-19. In contrast, we find that the degree of infectiousness of the coronavirus influences vaccine intentions and that inconsistent risk messages from public health experts and elected officials may reduce vaccine uptake. However, the most important determinants of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy seem to be distrust of the vaccine safety (including uncertainty due to vaccine novelty), as well as general vaccine avoidance, as implied by not having had a flu shot in the last two years.
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Age Factors
Animal Ecology
Communicable Disease Control - methods
Communicable Disease Control - standards
Comorbidity
Consumer Health Information - methods
Consumer Health Information - standards
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 vaccines
COVID-19 Vaccines - administration & dosage
COVID-19 Vaccines - adverse effects
Disease control
Ecosystems
Environmental Health
Female
Health Behavior
Health Communication - standards
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health risks
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Intention
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Microbiology
Middle Aged
Original Contribution
Public Health
Residence Characteristics
Risk Assessment
Severity of Illness Index
Sex Factors
Socioeconomic Factors
Statistical analysis
United States
Vaccines
Viral diseases
Water and Health
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