Getting Vaccinated Gains Popularity February 15, 2021
Supplies are short and the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine is slow, but the willingness to get the shots is sharply rising across southwestern Pennsylvania, a new survey suggests. And hesitancy over getting vaccinated is fading the most among non-whites.
Some 60 percent of southwestern Pennsylvanians said they were ready to get the shot in January, according to a regional survey done by the Allegheny Conference and Schmidt Market Research.
Only 26 percent of people in the region felt that way in November, when two U.S. drug makers announced they had developed vaccines effective at preventing COVID-19 infection.