Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

March 8, 2021

An Increase in Willingness to Vaccinate against COVID-19 in the US between October 2020 and February 2021 Longitudinal Evidence from the Understanding America Study

Category:

Topic:

Keywords (Tags):

  • [Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19 increased in the US from October 2020 to February 2021 according to results from a nationally-representative internet-panel of US adults (n = 7,840 participants). Between April and October 2020, there was a sharp decline in willingness to be vaccinated (from 74% to 53%), followed by a statistically significant (8%) increase to 61% between October 2020 and February 2021. A significant increase in willingness to be vaccinated was also observed across all demographic groups examined, with participants who identified as Black (16% increase) and Hispanic (12% increase) showing particularly large increases in willingness to be vaccinated.

Daly et al. (Mar 8, 2021). An Increase in Willingness to Vaccinate against COVID-19 in the US between October 2020 and February 2021 Longitudinal Evidence from the Understanding America Study. Pre-print downloaded Mar 8 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.04.21252918