A survey found out that one-third of adult Americans do not trust being vaccinated against the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), even if it has killed nearly 70,000 in the US.
The Daily Mail said, "they won't be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus once a jab is developed."
For and against vaccines
The report was published by PR firm Bospar, which said the least likely to vaccinate are those between ages 18 and 24 years old. Nearly half of the participants in the study said they will respect the choice of those who forego vaccination.
Market research firm Propeller Insights recruited over 1,000 adults to answer a questionnaire on April 28 and 29.
The participants were asked if they would be vaccinated against COVID-19 or not and their perspective on those who do not want to be vaccinated.
Majority of the participants were for vaccination, but 30.7 percent said they would not.
Lead investigator Curtis Sparrer, who is also a principal at Bospar, said to the Daily Mail, "I've been looking at the news a lot and seeing a lot of these protests taking place and following the what-if scenarios of what the future will hold."
The protests were mostly against orders telling everyone to stay at home.
Sparrer added, "I've been disappointed a lot more times that I've been made proud by our response." He thinks a lot of people won't undergo vaccination.
The participants did not answer why they do not want to be vaccinated. But Sparrer believes this is due to anti-vaccination views.
Their body, their choice
Sparrer explained, "Our beliefs are it would track with much of the typical vaccine rhetoric: that it causes something else, that it leads to COVID-19 infection, suspicion of the medical industry itself."
Baby boomers and the silent generation are the opposite of Gen Zs and Millennials. 78.3 percent of them said they want immunization.
Despite killing hundreds of thousands, Sparrer said "COVID-19 has not the changed the face of this group of people that is profoundly selfish and short-sighted."
On the other hand, 57.6% of younger participants said they would not be vaccinated. Sparrer attributes this to them thinking they would not fall ill to COVID-19.
"People who are younger have a false sense of invincibility while people who are older are not only concerned about it through news reports, but are also acquainted with their own mortality by having lived longer,' he said in the Daily Mail.
Aside from age, gender, sexual orientation, and education also played a part in the study.
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Men, democrats, and heterosexuals were most likely to vaccinate.
The Daily Mail said, "Democrats were 16 percent more likely [to immunize] than Republicans.
Men are more likely to get a jab than women, while heterosexuals are 71.5 percent more likely to immunize than members of the LBGTQ community at 55.9 percent.
Eighty-one percent of master's degree holders or higher said they want to be vaccinated, while only 60.3 percent of people who have a high school diploma want the same.
The Daily Mail said, "However, the majority of Americans were respectful when it came to choosing to vaccinate or not to vaccinate.
