Rates of vaccine hesitancy particularly high among Black adults and Republicans, a December survey reveals<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
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TUESDAY, March 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — More than one-third of nonelderly U.S. adults report they are unlikely to get a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a report released by the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.<\/p>\n
Michael Karpman, of the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute, and colleagues based their findings on the Urban Institute Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey of 7,737 adults ages 18 to 64 years conducted between Dec. 8 and 30, 2020.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that 35 percent of adults reported they were unlikely to get a COVID-19 vaccine, including 19 percent who would probably not get vaccinated and 16 percent who would definitely not get vaccinated. Nearly half of Black respondents (49 percent) were vaccine-hesitant versus about one-third of White and Hispanic adults, but given the differences in population size, White adults constituted 59 percent of all vaccine-hesitant nonelderly adults. Republican respondents were nearly twice as likely as Democratic respondents to say they would probably not or definitely not get vaccinated (47 versus 25 percent). Vaccine-hesitant adults were most concerned about side effects and vaccine effectiveness, although more than half (57 percent) believed they did not need the vaccine, a belief more common among Republicans (63 percent). One in four vaccine-hesitant adults (24 percent) said they did not have a usual source of health care and 15 percent reported being uninsured.<\/p>\n
“Notably, a history of racial discrimination, medical abuses, and neglect by the health care system and government has shaped Black adults’ hesitancy toward the COVID-19 vaccines,” Karpman said in a statement.<\/p>\n