{"id":39746,"date":"2020-08-15T09:28:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T13:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=39746"},"modified":"2020-08-15T09:28:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T13:28:27","slug":"infographic-split-u-s-decision-on-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=39746","title":{"rendered":"Infographic – Split U.S. Decision on Covid-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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15 Aug. 2020. While the U.S. government, drug makers, and biotech companies pour billions of dollars into vaccines against Covid-19 infections, a large percentage of the American public is still not ready to be vaccinated. Results from a recent Gallup Poll<\/a> show one in three American adults (35%) would not get a Covid-19 vaccine, even if free and approved by the FDA.<\/p>\n

The Gallup data, compiled by the business research company Statista<\/a>, show two-thirds of U.S. respondents (65%) would agree to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Younger, urban, and White Americans are somewhat more likely to get the vaccine than their older, rural, and non-White counterparts. But the greatest predictor is political affiliation: eight in 10 Democratic respondents (81%) would get the vaccine, while Republicans are divided about evenly — 47 percent say yes, while 53 percent say no.<\/p>\n

Gallup asked the question 20 July to 2 Aug. of 7,632 adults, aged 18 and older, taking part in the Gallup Panel, recruited through probability-based random methods.<\/p>\n

Poll questions of this kind are, of course, speculative, since Covid-19 vaccines in Western countries are only now reaching late-stage, large-scale clinical trials. Yet the responses indicate the need for a large-scale education campaign and public health policies encouraging the public to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n

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