Five Strategies to Foster National COVID-19 Vaccine Program by Angela Mohan on December 15, 2020 at 3:47 PM
Journal of the American Medical Association.
National efforts to develop a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine at warp speed will likely yield a safe and effective vaccine by early 2021. However, this important milestone is only the first step in an equally important challenge: getting a majority of the U.S. public vaccinated.
Alison M. Buttenheim, PhD, MBA, the Patricia Bleznak Silverstein and the Howard A. Silverstein Term Endowed Professorship in Global Women s Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing), is senior author of the article.
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.