{"id":9383,"date":"2021-04-23T09:37:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T16:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9383"},"modified":"2021-04-28T09:38:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T16:38:06","slug":"covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-january-march-2021-among-18-64-year-old-us-adults-by-employment-and-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/23\/covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-january-march-2021-among-18-64-year-old-us-adults-by-employment-and-occupation\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy January-March 2021 among 18-64 Year Old US Adults by Employment and Occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A large, nationally representative online survey of US adults ages 18-64 (N=732,308) found that COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy decreased from 28% in January 2021 to 22% in March 2021, but remained higher in specific occupational groups. Persons employed in physical\/life sciences and education had the lowest vaccine hesitancy (9%) while persons employed in physical labor (e.g. construction, maintenance, and repair) had the highest levels of vaccine hesitancy (42-46%). Among healthcare workers, persons employed as medical assistants, emergency medical technicians\/paramedics, and nursing assistants\/psychiatric aides had the highest vaccine hesitancy (20-23%). Nearly half of respondents who reported vaccine hesitancy cited concerns about side effects while a third believed that they do not need a vaccine or expressed concerns about vaccine safety and government mistrust.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">King et al. (Apr 23, 2021). COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy January-March 2021 among 18-64 Year Old US Adults by Employment and Occupation. Pre-print downloaded Apr 23 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.04.20.21255821\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.04.20.21255821<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A large, nationally representative online survey of US adults ages 18-64 (N=732,308) found that COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy decreased from 28% in January 2021 to 22% in March 2021, but remained higher in specific occupational groups. Persons employed in physical\/life sciences and education had the lowest vaccine hesitancy (9%) while persons employed in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/23\/covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-january-march-2021-among-18-64-year-old-us-adults-by-employment-and-occupation\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[216],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-9383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-vaccination-hesitancy","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9384,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383\/revisions\/9384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9383"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}