According to a new survey, the willingness of Americans to be vaccinated against COVID-19 has increased markedly since the FDA authorized the use of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna spikes.
According to the USA Today / Suffolk University poll, 46% said they would get the vaccine as soon as possible, nearly double the 26% who were ready to receive the shot as soon as possible in a late USA Today poll. of October.
In the new poll, 32 percent of respondents said they would wait for others to receive the shots before doing so themselves.
“We have to control this virus and that would be my part,” said Susan Sadule, 59, a retiree from Easton, Pennsylvania, who was surveyed.
“From what I’ve read, it will take about 75 percent of the nation to get the vaccine to create immunity to the herd, and frankly, I don’t want to live in a pandemic for the rest of my life,” said Lisa McAlister, 48 , registered nurse from Grove, Oklahoma.
Those most reluctant to get a vaccine are still not persuaded. In October, one in five said they would not take the shot, now or later. An identical 20 percent said so in the latest poll.
Both polls surveyed 1,000 registered voters and have margins of error of roughly 3.1 percentage points.