The COVID-19 vaccine floodgates are now open, with more than half of U.S. adults receiving at least one dose and the public and private sectors pouring billions of dollars into the effort. Yet there are also major gaps in who’s actually gotten a shot, and officials are already trying to reach vaccine holdouts — a group that will help determine how severe the country’s COVID-19 threat will be going forward.
A new Morning Consult analysis, drawn from a survey of more than 30,000 adults and conducted April 13-19, indicates that while most people across demographic groups want a COVID-19 vaccine, both vaccine reluctance and access to shots are causing friction in the rollout.
Among the groups most likely to say they’re unsure about getting vaccinated or plan to skip the shot altogether: Republicans and Black adults without college degrees; Black women; Hispanic women who are Republicans or political independents; adults under 45 years old who earn less than $50,000; mothers; and adults in a handful of states, including Mississippi, Idaho and Arkansas.
There’s limited overlap. Even after controlling for race and income, for example, people without a college degree are 143 percent more likely than someone with a postgraduate degree to say they don’t plan to get vaccinated. And controlling for income and education, Black adults are 41 percent more likely than white adults to say they won’t get a shot.
You’d be surprised by the number of health care workers say no.
Just look at the science. You wouldn’t be pumping that poison in your arm if you read the data.
I know way too much about this vaccine and since it is my choice to take it or not these fools can take their experimental drug and shove it and I dare either one of you fools to tell me I am going to make you sick. What the hell is wrong with these fools if they have been vaccinated they are protected so why in the hell do they care. Want an answer they are all on the take the more shots the more money the state and counties get. Sorry people they don’t give a damn about protecting you, they want fewer people on this planet. And another thing get that blasted mask off, you are only killing your immune system by wearing it. It was proven that masks do not work.