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Most Unvaccinated Americans Don't Want Shots: AP-NORC Poll

vendredi 23 juillet 2021, 18:00 , par Slashdot
Most Americans who haven't been vaccinated against COVID-19 say they are unlikely to get the shots and doubt they would work against the aggressive delta variant despite evidence they do, according to a new poll that underscores the challenges facing public health officials amid soaring infections in some states. AP: Among American adults who have not yet received a vaccine, 35% say they probably will not, and 45% say they definitely will not, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Just 3% say they definitely will get the shots, though another 16% say they probably will. What's more, 64% of unvaccinated Americans have little to no confidence the shots are effective against variants -- including the delta variant that officials say is responsible for 83% of new cases in the U.S. -- despite evidence that they offer strong protection. In contrast, 86% of those who have already been vaccinated have at least some confidence that the vaccines will work.

That means 'that there will be more preventable cases, more preventable hospitalizations and more preventable deaths,' said Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins University. 'We always knew some proportion of the population would be difficult to persuade no matter what the data showed, (and) a lot of people are beyond persuasion,' said Adalja. He echoed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky in calling the current surge 'a pandemic of the unvaccinated' because nearly all hospital admissions and deaths have been among those who weren't immunized.

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