- A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor might shed light on what will encourage people to get vaccinated.
- The survey found that 21 percent of adults who said in January that they planned on waiting to get the vaccine have since been inoculated.
- People said seeing their friends and family having positive outcomes after getting vaccinated helped push them toward getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
Vaccinations have slowed in the United States with about 68 percent of the adult population partially vaccinated.
Experts are now looking for new ways to encourage people to get vaccinated.
A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor might shed light on what will encourage people to get vaccinated.
The survey found that 21 percent of adults who said in January that they planned on waiting to get the vaccine have since been inoculated.
These people said conversations with their friends, family members, and doctors as well as seeing those close to them get vaccinated without experiencing any serious side effects were the reasons they changed their minds.
“Vaccine hesitancy can unfortunately spread just as fast as COVID-19,” said Dr. Eric Ascher, a family medicine physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. “One story with misinformation can circulate in the media very quickly, and we have seen that. What we do know is centuries’ worth of information on how vaccines work, and their safety profile.”
He added, “The best way to combat hesitancy is sharing the information that scientists and doctors gathered about vaccines to help debunk common myths.”
Source: healthline