A global survey of potential acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine

By J. Lazarus, S. Ratzan, Adam Palayew, L. Gostin, H. Larson, Kenneth H. Rabin, S. Kimball, A. El-Mohandes. Nature Medicine, 2020

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Several coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines are currently in human trials. In June 2020, we surveyed 13,426 people in 19 countries to determine potential acceptance rates and factors influencing acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine. Of these, 71.5% of participants reported that they would be very or somewhat likely to take a COVID-19 vaccine, and 48.1% reported that they would accept their employer’s recommendation to do so. Differences in acceptance rates ranged from almost 90% (in China) to less than 55% (in Russia). Respondents reporting higher levels of trust in information from government sources were more likely to accept a vaccine and take their employer’s advice to do so. Survey data from across 19 countries reveal heterogeneity in attitudes toward acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine and suggest that trust in government is associated with vaccine confidence.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Worldwide: A Concise Systematic Review of Vaccine Acceptance Rates (2021, background): “Lazarus et al [46] Brazil June, 2020 Completely/somewhat agree 717 General population 85.”
• Confidence and Receptivity for COVID-19 Vaccines: A Rapid Systematic Review (2020, background): “National (but not necessarily state) coronavirus infection and mortality rates [9,21,23,58], perceived risk of infection [2,7,42] and disease severity [2,53] were predictors of vaccination intentions.”
• COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy in the United States: A Rapid National Assessment (2021, background): “2%, lower than participants from many low- and middle-income countries in the same study [15].”
• Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy (2021, background): “Furthermore, the pandemic situation and interventions in place could have affected participants’ response at the time of the survey and thus the overall findings [7,11,19].”
• High Rates of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Its Association with Conspiracy Beliefs: A Study in Jordan and Kuwait among Other Arab Countries (2021, background): “The acceptance rates reached more than 90% in earlier studies from Indonesia and China [60,61].”