Attitudes Toward a Potential SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine: A Survey of U.S. Adults

By Kimberly A. Fisher, Sarah Bloomstone, J. Walder, S. Crawford, H. Fouayzi, K. Mazor. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2020

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Once a vaccine for coronavirus disease 2019 becomes available, it will be important to maximize vaccine uptake and coverage. This national survey explores factors associated with vaccine hesitancy. The results suggest that multipronged efforts will be needed to increase acceptance of a coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine.

Subfields: Health, Infectious Diseases, Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Citations in the corpus

• Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy (2021, background): “Authors recognised that acceptance was mostly assessed using hypothetical questions as there were still no vaccines developed [6,11,12].”
• COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Worldwide: A Concise Systematic Review of Vaccine Acceptance Rates (2021, background): “Fisher et al [61] US 4 April, 2020 Yes 1003 General population 56.”
• COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy in the United States: A Rapid National Assessment (2021, background): “Additional research is needed to understand the influence of income, employment type and status, employment-related mandates, insurance status, rurality, and education on the likelihood of accepting a COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available [7, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23].”
• 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): “Recent studies on this subject indicated that the potential acceptance of the prospective COVID-19 vaccines ranged from 57.6% to 68.6% in two studies among adults in the United States [57,58].”
• Confidence and Receptivity for COVID-19 Vaccines: A Rapid Systematic Review (2020, background): “the public’s confidence and acceptance for the vaccines are unclear and changing [1,2], rendering achieving herd immunity challenging.”
• Vaccine hesitancy in the era of COVID-19 (2021, neutral): “…Older age, male gender, fear about COVID-19, be healthcare workers and individual perceived risk were associated with COVID-19 vaccine acceptance Fisher, 2020 USA 16e20 April 2020 Survey - Adults 991 COVID-19 - 18e29 years old 20.4% - 30e44 years old 25% - 45e59 years old 24.6% - >60 years…”