{"id":3835,"date":"2021-02-10T18:32:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T02:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:43:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T05:43:38","slug":"covid-19-vaccine-acceptability-among-u-s-firefighters-and-emergency-medical-services-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/10\/covid-19-vaccine-acceptability-among-u-s-firefighters-and-emergency-medical-services-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptability among U.S. Firefighters and Emergency Medical Services Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Findings from a cross-sectional survey conducted in October 2020 among firefighters and EMTs (n=3,169) showed that 48% of respondents expressed high acceptability of a future COVID-19 vaccine, while 24% reported that they were unsure and 28% reported low acceptability. Groups with greater odds of reporting low acceptability (relative to the high acceptability group) included individuals aged 30\u201339 (OR=3.6), those who identified as Black (OR=3.60) or Hispanic\/Latinx (OR=2.4), those who had some college education (OR=2.1, relative to high school diploma), were married (OR=1.7), or of current rank firefighter\/EMS (OR=2.2, relative to rank of chief).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Caban-Martinez et al. (Jan 28, 2021). COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptability among U.S. Firefighters and Emergency Medical Services Workers. Journal of Occupational &amp; Environmental Medicine. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/JOM.0000000000002152\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/JOM.0000000000002152<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings from a cross-sectional survey conducted in October 2020 among firefighters and EMTs (n=3,169) showed that 48% of respondents expressed high acceptability of a future COVID-19 vaccine, while 24% reported that they were unsure and 28% reported low acceptability. Groups with greater odds of reporting low acceptability (relative to the high acceptability group) included individuals&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/10\/covid-19-vaccine-acceptability-among-u-s-firefighters-and-emergency-medical-services-workers\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29,33],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-3835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","tag-vaccines","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}