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Editorial Board
18 November 2020 08:00
If the coronavirus vaccine arrives in 2021, 37% of Italians want to do it as soon as possible, while 42% intend to wait first to understand its effectiveness; 16%, or one in six Italians, intend not to: these are the results of an Ipsos poll published today by Corriere della Sera and taken up by the DiMartedì broadcast.
Polls: Italians who do not want the coronavirus vaccine
The newspaper explains that there is also pessimism about availability: 58% believe that there will not be enough for everyone. But it’s not just this survey that worries about a “herd effect” that therefore runs the risk of not happening: on October 16, Euromedia Research had found that 36% of people were opposed to the idea. of immunization (it was 23%), 30% in favor and 29% who declared that they “want to know the origin of the product first.” A month later, the proportion of those who oppose vaccination fell by 3 points (to 33%) and that of those who want to know more first rose by 3 points (to 32%). The unrestricted yes, however, had fallen, about 26%, while 9% did not want to answer.
Skeptics are more concentrated in the center-south and among those under 35, but the trend is widespread. Even clearer (and more alarming) are the data extrapolated by Matteo Villa of the Ispi institute when reworking the Ipsos survey. According to an investigation by the World Economic Forum, 34% of Italians declared that they would not receive the vaccine (with 17% strongly against and 17% strongly against). Among these 34%, 56% were “concerned about side effects”, 28% believed the vaccine was “ineffective”, but up to 30% said they were “against vaccines in general”.
Finally, Libero says today, a poll shown on Sunday on La7 explained that one in three Italians does not want to receive an anti-Covid vaccine: 35 percent simply do not want to do it and 15 percent still do not know. What are the reasons for this hostility? The No-Vax war against vaccines has its roots in the Lorenzin law that made ten mandatory and even today it is enough to go online to find sites, groups and facebook pages that scream at the plots of Bill Gates and many others regarding the coronavirus and the preparation that could make it disappear. But the antiscientific sentiment is rooted and also based on the inability of science to communicate safety and the many accusations, some of which are based on the conflicts of interest of scientists. Today, to change course, it would take a serious campaign and political commitment. But the risk is that even that is not enough.
