New Study Assess Willingness to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
by Angela Mohan on
December 15, 2020 at 3:39 PM
New study assessed the psychological and social predictors of U.S. adults' willingness to get COVID-19 vaccine and whether these predictors differ under an emergency use authorization release of the vaccine.
This study led by a Virginia Commonwealth University professor also assess whether these predictors differ under an emergency use authorization release of the vaccine.
The study, "Willingness to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine with and without Emergency Use Authorization," will be published in the
American Journal of Infection Control.
It involved a survey of 788 U.S. adults, and found that 59.9% of respondents were definitely or probably planning to receive a future coronavirus vaccine, while 18.8% were neutral and 21.3% were probably or definitely not planning to get it.