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CoVid vaccine hesitancy has dropped 50% over the past 4 months and continues to decline month by month.  This the conclusion of a study from epidemiologists at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon University.

 

Using online survey data from 732,308 Facebook users 18 to 64 years of age, the researchers find only 22.1% are now likely to decline CoVid vaccination.  Compare this with the 44% who were vaccine hesitant during December 2020.  Hesitancy varied by occupation: scientists, educators, and lawyers were the lowest with about 10%, next were healthcare providers at 14%, business and finance people at 15-16%, healthcare support staff at 16%, architects and engineers at 18%, food prep and service people at 25%, salespeople at 27%, building maintenance and military at 28%, truckers at 34%, farmers at 41%, and construction people most likely to decline vaccination at 46%.

 

Hopefully the trend toward CoVid vaccine acceptance will increase.  Those who refuse the vaccine are more likely to become infected or die, and thus the overall CoVid immunity of the American population will increase.  We'd all prefer it do so without extreme suffering and loss of life.

 

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.20.21255821v1.full.pdf+html

 

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