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A healthcare worker holds the Johnson and Johnson vaccine at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto.
- A study has found that men are more likely to be suspicious of the Covid-19 vaccine than women.
- However, only 52% of those surveyed said they would get vaccinated.
- The study also showed that between 8% and 13% of South Africans “do not believe the Covid narrative.”
Women are more likely to take the Covid-19 vaccine than men, according to a study.
According to the Ask Afrika Covid-19 Tracker study, South Africans still don’t know whether or not they should get vaccinated, and men are more likely to reject it.
Just over half of those surveyed (52%) said they intended to get vaccinated, while 19% said they didn’t plan to get vaccinated at all.
This is the first time that Ask Afrika includes the topic of vaccines in its Covid-19 Tracker study, a pro-bono study that the company has been conducting since the first week of April 2020 to better understand the socioeconomic impact. that the coronavirus, the blockade and the gradual reopening of the economy has had on South Africans.
Just over a quarter of respondents (28%) said they weren’t sure if they would get vaccinated, and of those, women appeared to be less certain than their male counterparts.
However, the study found that, overall, men had a “significantly greater sense of mistrust” toward the vaccine than women, said Andrea Rademeyer, CEO and founder of Ask Afrika. The safety of the vaccine remains a primary concern.
Despite the fact that men had higher levels of distrust around the safety of the vaccine, 20% of the women who are confident in the safety of the vaccine were unsure whether or not they would get vaccinated. Of the women who were not confident in the safety of the vaccine, 60% said they would not get vaccinated.
“Among the men surveyed who are confident in the safety of the vaccine, speed of delivery to South Africa becomes more important while efficacy is more important for women who are confident in the safety of the vaccine,” Rademeyer added.
However, concerns remained over data showing that the number of South Africans – “who refuse to accept the Covid narrative” – stands at between 8% and 13% of the population.
“This is a large enough number of potential superpropagators to potentially drive a new wave of mutations,” he said.
He added that, although this study was conducted on a relatively small sample size, a representative sample of the general population consisting of 403 respondents indicated how urgently South Africa needed a quantified behavioral model of beliefs about supereparators and vaccines. .
