Recent research among Americans indicates a greater willingness to obtain the coronavirus vaccine amid growing confidence in inoculations and in the distribution of a third vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
This week, President Biden revealed a partnership between Merck and Johnson & Johnson to produce the latter’s single-dose vaccine COVID-19, adding that the United States will have sufficient vaccine doses through this and two-dose inoculations from Pfizer and Moderna to vaccinate all American adults by the end of May.
In studies conducted in recent weeks, Americans have shown a greater willingness to receive the vaccine, despite initial hesitation at the start of the vaccine’s launch.
At the a poll from the Pew Research Center published on Friday, 69% of American adults interviewed between February 16 and February 21 said they had already received the vaccine or intended to get it, an increase from the 60% who said they planned to be vaccinated in November.
Pew reported that about 19 percent of respondents have already received the vaccine, while another 50 percent said they “definitely or probably” planned to be vaccinated.
On a Kaiser Family Foundation Research launched at the end of last month, 55 percent of American adults said they received at least one dose of the vaccine (18 percent) or wanted to be inoculated as soon as possible (37 percent).
Recent Axios / Ipsos Survey they also showed similar results, with 57% saying they would receive the vaccine or already had it, compared to just 13% of adults who in September said they would be willing to receive the vaccine as soon as it was available to them.
Despite the increased willingness to be vaccinated among Americans in general, minority groups and people with lower income levels have continued to say that they are less willing to receive one of the FDA-approved vaccines.
Black and Hispanic adults continue to be more likely than white adults to say they will “wait and see” before deciding whether to get the coronavirus vaccine, Kaiser found, although Pew on Friday found that the The majority of black Americans – 61 percent – now say they plan to be vaccinated or have already done it, against 42% who said the same in November.
Pew found that 14% of low-income adults claim to have received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared with 20% of middle-income adults and 27% of high-income adults.
These findings come as public health experts say that somewhere between 70% and 90% of the American population would need to be vaccinated to obtain collective immunity, in which a sufficient number of people will be resistant to the virus that causes COVID-19 in order for it to be virtually eliminated. .
According Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 57.4 million Americans received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine by Saturday, with 29.8 million already on two doses.