Recent surveys among Americans indicate a greater willingness to obtain the coronavirus vaccine amid growing confidence in inoculations and the distribution of a third vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
This week, President Biden presented an association between Merck and Johnson & Johnson to produce the single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, and added that the United States will have enough doses of vaccine through it and Pfizer’s two-shot vaccines and Modern for vaccinating all American adults in late May.
In studies conducted in recent weeks, Americans have shown a greater willingness to get the vaccine despite initial hesitations at the start of the vaccine launch.
In a Pew Research Center survey published Friday, 69 percent of U.S. adults surveyed Feb. 16-21 said they had already received the vaccine or intended to get the vaccine, a 60 percent increase they said they planned. get vaccinated in November.
Pew reported that about 19 percent of respondents have already received the vaccine, while an additional 50 percent said they “definitely or probably” planned to get vaccinated.
In a Survey of the Kaiser Family Foundation published late last month, 55% of American adults said they had already received at least one dose of the vaccine (18%) or wanted to get the inoculation as soon as possible (37%).
Recently Axios / Ipsos survey it also showed similar results, with 57% saying they would receive the vaccine or had already gotten it, above 13% of adults who in September said they would be willing to receive the vaccine once they were available.
Despite the growing desire to be vaccinated among Americans in general, minority groups and people with lower income levels have continued to say they are less willing to receive one of the FDA-approved vaccines.
Black and Hispanic adults are still more likely than white adults to say they’ll “wait and see” before deciding if they want to get the coronavirus vaccine, Kaiser found, though Friday Pew found that most black Americans (61%) say they now plan to get vaccinated or have already done so, above the 42% who said the same in November.
Pew found that 14 percent of lower-income adults say they received at least one dose of vaccine, compared with 20 percent of middle-income adults and 27 percent of those on higher incomes.
These results come as public health experts have said that between 70 and 90 percent of the U.S. population should be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity, in which there will be enough people resistant to the virus. which causes COVID-19. be all but eliminated.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 57.4 million Americans have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine as of Saturday, with 29.8 million already with two doses.