For immediate release: Monday, March 1, 2021
Boston, MA—Most pregnant women and mothers of children younger than 18 years old say they would receive a COVID-19vaccine and vaccinate their children, according to a survey conducted by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The research indicated that vaccine acceptance was highest in India, the Philippines, and all sampled countries in Latin America, and it was lowest in Russia, the U.S., and Australia.
The results were published online on March 1, 2021 in the European Journal of Epidemiology.
Vaccines for COVID-19 are being distributed around the world, but until now researchers have had little data about global COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. To assess pregnant women and mothers’ stances on whether to vaccinate themselves and their children, a team led by Harvard Chan School’s Julia Wu, research scientist in the Department of Epidemiology and a principal investigator of the Human Immunomics Initiative, conducted an online survey administered by the Pregistry website between late October and mid-November 2020.