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The other 36 percent. 26% of respondents do not have a clear position on COVID-19 vaccines and 26% states do not intend to vaccinate.
The LSTC study reveals that men are slightly more likely to be vaccinated than women, as well as the elderly population, although 3-4 out of 10 respondents in all age groups do not know how to behave.
Compared to the seasonal influenza vaccination volumes in Lithuania, the population’s willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19 is currently higher. For example, according to the Center for Communicable Diseases and AIDS, 8.4 percent were vaccinated during the 2016-2017 flu season. of the entire population of Lithuania, and 65 m. and the oldest population group: 24.1 percent.
Project manager, chief researcher at the LSTC Institute of Sociology dr. Diana Janušauskienė told Eltai that there was a need to further educate the Lithuanian population so that as many people as possible would use the vaccine in the end.
“There is a very large proportion of people who think there is no virus, there are many who think it is a disease, a common virus like the flu, pneumonia. People are in ignorance, (…) basically there is no public education. There is a need for some kind of campaign to educate on the benefits of these vaccines. (…)
“It is necessary to spread the message loud and clear, because otherwise, as this study shows, we will buy vaccines and, if vaccination is voluntary, only a small proportion (36% of respondents – ELTA) will get vaccinated,” he said.
ELTA recalls that Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has previously stated that he is planning to buy 70% of COVID-19 vaccines. Lithuanian populations.
Meanwhile, Ramūnas Karbauskis, leader of the ruling “peasants”, assured that the vaccine would be recommended to the population, not mandatory.
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