Nearly 1 in 3 people in the United States said they will definitely or probably not receive the COVID-19 vaccine, according to new research.
The survey, released on Wednesday by the Associated Press-NORC Public Affairs Research Center, found that 15 percent of respondents said they “definitely” won’t get a coronavirus vaccine. Seventeen percent said they “probably won’t” get the vaccine.
Sixty-seven percent of respondents said they plan to be vaccinated or have already received a vaccine, including 19 percent who said they “probably will”, 35 percent who said they “definitely will” and 13 percent who said they already received their shot.
The survey found that people aged 30-44, Republican voters and people without a college degree were among the most likely to say that they “definitely will not” get a COVID-19 vaccine when one is available to them.
Fifty-seven percent of black Americans said they received the vaccine or “definitely or likely” will be vaccinated, according to the survey. Sixty-eight percent of white respondents and 65% of Hispanics agreed.
Among those who said they did not plan to receive the vaccine, 60 percent cited concerns about possible side effects. Forty-eight percent said they “plan to wait and see if it is safe” and that “they can get it later”.
Anthony Fauci
Anthony FauciObama asks Americans to be vaccinated in a tweet that addresses misinformation Health officials warn that the eradication of COVID-19 is unlikely. Modified AstraZeneca vaccine for the South African strain due in autumn, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, predicted that achieving collective immunity against the coronavirus could require that 90 percent of the population be vaccinated. He previously estimated that herd immunity could require more than 75% of the country to be vaccinated.
“When the polls said that only half of all Americans would get the vaccine, I was saying that collective immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Fauci told The New York Times in December. “So when more recent polls said that 60 percent or more would accept, I thought, ‘I can increase this a little bit’, so I went to 80, 85.”
More than 33 million people in the U.S. have received at least one dost of a COVID-19 vaccine, which represents more than 10 percent of the country’s total population.
The survey surveyed 1,055 adults in the United States between January 28 and February 1. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.