In September it rose to 63% – indicating a steady increase in trust as regulators worked to authorize vaccines and hold public meetings to discuss data supporting their use.
But Black Americans, people living in rural areas, and Republicans are more reluctant to get shots.
A third of those surveyed said they “want to be vaccinated as soon as possible” and a% of those surveyed said they “wait and see” how they get the initial vaccine before they get vaccinated.
The nonprofit health research group surveyed 1,676 adults for the survey, which the group is launching as the Covid-19 vaccine monitor and plans to update regularly.
U.S. Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine was approved for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration after a public meeting of its independent advisers last week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention backed the EU after a public meeting of its own advisers over the weekend.
The vaccine was rolled out in all 50 states on Monday and many doctors, nurses and other staff stepped in to administer the vaccine in public.
But officials say they are concerned that many Americans still distrust such a new vaccine.
The survey indicated a small hard core of vaccine skeptics.
About 15% said they would get the Kovid-19 vaccine “definitely not”. “This group is inconsistently made up of people other than Republicans and non-high-level educators,” Kaiser said in a statement.
Only 9% of those surveyed reported that they would receive the vaccine only if they were needed for the most needed workers, work, school or other parts of their lives.
“Interestingly, if you look for reasons to hesitate in different groups, you see that they’re really different depending on who you’re talking to,” Liz Hamill, director of Kaiser’s public opinion survey research program, told CNN. ‘
The survey also looked at the motivations behind vaccine reluctance and found that the groups that have the most vaccine compressors are Republicans, 30- to 39-year-olds, rural Americans and black Americans.
Worry about side effects
“Some black adults are hesitant for reasons that may change with more information. For example: 71% of those who say they will not be vaccinated say the main reason is that they have possible side effects (which are mild Is expected to happen) and half (50%) say they are worried they might get COVID-19 from the vaccine, “KFFA said.
“It’s a warning sign of potential misinformation spreading in the group,” Hamil said.
Both African Americans and Latino expressed concern about how the vaccine development process took into account their needs. Only 11% of African Americans and 16% of Latino were “very confident” that the process would take into account their needs.
For Republicans, 57% of those surveyed chose “the risks of Covid-19 being exaggerated” because they certainly or probably don’t get vaccinated.
“Many Americans who are hesitant reserve judgment before they are ready to be vaccinated. However, about one in four Republicans do not want to be vaccinated because they do not believe there is a serious threat to Covid,” said executive Mollian Brody. . Vice President of the Kaiser Family Foundation. “Undoing the cowardly rejection between this piece of President Trump’s political base will be a real challenge.”
Surveyors were asked to rate their enthusiasm for the vaccine – if they get the vaccine as soon as possible, wait and see how it works, only if it is needed for school or work, or if it is not available.
The Kaiser team saw 39% of participants fall into the “wait and see” group. About half, 52%, Black Americans fell into this group; 43% Latino did and 36% white. Whites made up 40% of the “group as soon as possible”, but only 20% of Blacks and 26% of Hispanics said they needed a coronavirus vaccine right away.
Reliable messenger
“Based on our data, what happens in this initial rollout is also easily filtered out in both how it is rolled out and how different media sources from people tell them how it works is crucial in both. Will happen. “The initial rollout is underway,” Hamil said.
“It’s a lot harder because it’s not like a single national advertising campaign with a nationally trusted messenger that can get out there and get people to trust this. It’s really going to be an army on underground messengers.”
Kaiser asked the participants the most trusted to get their information. Of the overwhelming numbers, 85% said they trust their personal health care providers over all others, including national, state and local messengers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the local health departments, the Food and Drug Administration, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, trusted by President Trump, were considered a more reliable source of information than President Trump, elected by 34%.
“We’ve seen over the last few months, you know, that trust is going to decrease and become more biased because these different groups and potential messages are engaged in political discourse,” Hamil said.
The study also found that while most Americans believe the vaccine will be widely available by next summer, more people are confident that the vaccine will be properly tested before administration.
Surveyors also now believe that the vaccine will be fairly distributed as it becomes more available. The increase was most pronounced among African Americans – only 32% of people in September believed in an equal distribution of the vaccine, but that share is now 62%.
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