Recent findings blow up assumptions about who chooses to get vaccinated against COVID.
It is easy to assume that most people who get the COVID-19 vaccine do so without a shred of trepidation, while those who are hesitant about it choose never to get vaccinated. But a recent set of findings blows up this binary and provides insights that could make vaccination campaigns more successful.
The team’s standout finding is that the majority of those who had just been vaccinated—60 percent of the respondents—reported that they had felt hesitant about getting the shot. This result, published on January 15 in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine, initially surprised medical sociologist Don E. Willis and his co-authors. But then team members reflected on their own path to the COVID-19 vaccine—and it was not a straight line for some of them.
“It’s not that ‘if you’re not vaccinated, then you are vaccine-hesitant’ or ‘if you’re vaccinated, then you are vaccine-confident,’” says medical anthropologist Eve Dubé of Laval University in Quebec. “You could be nonvaccinated and highly confident but face important barriers to access. Or you could be vaccinated and still be vaccine-hesitant.
“Dr. Fauci. I trust him more than any other public figure and value his years of experience and service to our country.” Some people who had been firmly opposed to getting vaccinated recently chose to do so, says public health researcher Sandra Crouse Quinn of the University of Maryland School of Public Health’s department of family science. Quinn has been co-leading a local component of a multi-state study of COVID-19 pandemic experiences and health equity, including barriers and facilitators to vaccination against the disease.
No universal strategy is likely to help all people resolve their COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy because hesitant adopters’ motives and social influences often vary among constellations of demographics and life experiences, McElfish and other researchers have found.
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