LAS CRUCES - A new study from New Mexico State University researchers reveals the prevalence of vaccine hesitancy among health care workers across the world.
The study is the first comprehensive and worldwide assessment of published evidence on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among health care workers. It comes as countries across the globe race to vaccinate their populations to slow transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19 and blunt the ongoing pandemic, now in its second year.
NMSU researchers, led by Jagdish Khubchandani, analyzed 35 studies that assessed vaccine hesitancy in health care workers from more than a dozen different countries. Their findings, published in the Journal of Community Health, show an average hesitancy rate of 22.5 percent among the 76,471 healthcare workers who participated in the studies.