One in three Americans will choose to receive a coronavirus vaccine as and when it becomes available, according to a new NPR / PBS NewsHour / Marist interview.
While 60% of respondents say they will be vaccinated if one is available to them, 35% say they will not, despite a worldwide COVID-19 death toll amounting to 760,000, according to the results released. The remaining 5% of respondents say they are unsure.
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The results show that Democrats were likely to be vaccinated with 71% saying yes, compared to just 48% of Republicans who would do so. Similarly, 61% of the independents said they would get vaccinated.
Friday’s results appear to be in line with a previous poll conducted by Fox News between August 9-12, which revealed that 26% of Americans would not be vaccinated against coronavirus. About 55% said they were planning, while 20% were unsure, according to the poll results.
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The Fox News poll also found that Democrats (66%) and independents (54%) are more likely than Republicans (43%) to be vaccinated.
However, to varying degrees, the results also showed that the majority of Democrats (90%), Independents (67%) and Republicans (58%) preferred that masks be required to limit the transmission of the disease. The pandemic shuts down much of the U.S. economy, leading to the worst decline in the post-World War II era.
The results reflect the power of the anti-vaccine movement, despite claims that it spreads misinformation and puts followers at higher risk.
According to a 2018 study published in the National Institutes of Health, opposition to vaccines is “as old as the vaccines themselves.”
However, it has grown as the world moves to create an impetus for COVID-19, which has so far killed more than 167,000 Americans, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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While anti-vaccine groups continue to urge parents to vaccinate their children and promote their opinion on social media platforms, an overwhelming majority of scientists and doctors believe that “these vaccines are both effective and safe,” the U.S. rep. Adam Schiff to the Washington Investigator.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that thousands die each year from diseases such as whooping cough, polio, measles, Haemophilus influenzae, and rubella before a vaccine was developed and was widely used, effectively reducing disease rates to the point where some of them are almost away from the US
“Most vaccine-preventable diseases are spread from person to person. If one person in a community gets an infectious disease, he or she can spread it to others who are not immune,” the CDC said. “But a person who is immune to a disease because he or she has been vaccinated cannot get that disease and cannot spread it to others. The more people who are vaccinated, the less likely they are to spread a disease. “
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