Growing Share of Americans Say They Plan To Get a COVID-19 Vaccine – or Already Have
19% of U.S. adults say they’ve received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine
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- Growing Share of Americans Say They Plan To Get a COVID-19 Vaccine – or Already Have
- Half of Americans intend to get a COVID-19 vaccine; 19% already have
- Those disinclined to be vaccinated cite concerns about side effects, pace of vaccine development and desire for more information as top reasons why
- Majority expects Biden’s policies to improve country’s response to outbreak; most say vaccination efforts will help economy at least a little
- Americans in two camps over threat to public health from COVID-19, differ widely over restrictions, vaccines
- Hospitals and medical centers continue to get high marks from the public for their coronavirus response
- Political differences in views of public health officials, Joe Biden on coronavirus response
- A majority of Americans say Biden’s plans will improve the country’s coronavirus response
- A year of wide political divisions over threat to public health from coronavirus outbreak
- Most Americans view requiring masks on transit as necessary step
- Republicans and Democrats are far more divided on ways to address coronavirus than at start of outbreak
- Americans continue to be deeply politically divided over restrictions on public activity
- Views on restrictions vary by statewide rules in place and partisanship
- About nine-in-ten Americans regularly wear masks in stores, businesses
- Majority of Americans say widespread vaccinations would help the U.S. economy a lot or a little
- Concern about new variants of the coronavirus especially high among those who see outbreak as a major threat to public health
- 58% say new variants of COVID-19 make it ‘more important’ for Americans to get vaccinated
- Majority prioritizes expanding vaccine supply in U.S., even if people in developing countries need to wait
- Majority of Black adults now say they plan to get – or have already received – a COVID-19 vaccine
- Those disinclined to be vaccinated cite concerns about side effects, pace of vaccine development and desire for more information as top reasons why
- Those highly confident in vaccine R&D process are especially likely to say they’ll get vaccinated
- Most Americans say individuals should consider community impact when making vaccination decision
- Black adults express heightened concern about COVID-19, lower trust in vaccine R&D process
- Black Americans who do not intend to get a coronavirus vaccine cite multiple reasons why
- Those who have gotten a vaccine are more likely to see local vaccination process as going well
- Most Americans expect widespread access to COVID-19 vaccines within the next six months
- 25% of Americans say they’ve had COVID-19; 67% know someone who’s been hospitalized or died
- By early 2021, 78% of Black Americans knew someone who had been hospitalized or died from COVID-19
- Two-thirds of Americans say science has had a mostly positive effect on society
- Views about how science affects society are less positive among Black, Hispanic adults
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