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Article

The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Here—Now Who Is Willing to Get It?

by
William D. S. Killgore
*,
Sara A. Cloonan
,
Emily C. Taylor
and
Natalie S. Dailey
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Vaccines 2021, 9(4), 339; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9040339
Submission received: 25 February 2021 / Revised: 22 March 2021 / Accepted: 25 March 2021 / Published: 1 April 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vaccination and Public Health Version II: COVID-19 Vaccination)
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Abstract

The U.S. vaccine campaign against COVID-19 began in December 2020, but many individuals seem reluctant to get vaccinated. During the first week of the vaccination campaign, we collected data from 1017 individuals with an online survey to identify factors that were associated with willingness to get the vaccine once it is available. Most participants (55.3%) were willing to get the vaccine, although 46.2% also expressed some fear of the vaccine. Political ideology was by far the most consistent predictor of both willingness to be vaccinated and fear of the vaccine, followed by participant sex, education level, income, and race/ethnicity. Our findings suggest that, for the vaccine campaign to be broadly supported and successful, it will be important for frontline healthcare workers to discuss the role of inoculation for COVID-19 in a manner consistent with each individual patient’s political and sociological worldview.
Keywords: vaccine hesitancy; COVID-19; political worldview vaccine hesitancy; COVID-19; political worldview

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Killgore, W.D.S.; Cloonan, S.A.; Taylor, E.C.; Dailey, N.S. The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Here—Now Who Is Willing to Get It? Vaccines 2021, 9, 339. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9040339

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Killgore WDS, Cloonan SA, Taylor EC, Dailey NS. The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Here—Now Who Is Willing to Get It? Vaccines. 2021; 9(4):339. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9040339

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Killgore, William D. S., Sara A. Cloonan, Emily C. Taylor, and Natalie S. Dailey. 2021. "The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Here—Now Who Is Willing to Get It?" Vaccines 9, no. 4: 339. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9040339

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Killgore, W. D. S., Cloonan, S. A., Taylor, E. C., & Dailey, N. S. (2021). The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Here—Now Who Is Willing to Get It? Vaccines, 9(4), 339. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9040339

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