The far-right and anti-vaccine attitudes: lessons from Spain's mass COVID-19 vaccine roll-out.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Far-right politicians in several countries have been vocal opponents of COVID-19 vaccination. But can this threaten vaccine roll-out?

Methods

We take advantage of repeated cross-sectional surveys with samples of around 3800 individuals across Spain conducted monthly from December 2020 to January 2022 (n = 51 294) to examine any association between far-right politics and vaccine hesitancy through the whole vaccine roll-out.

Results

Consistent with prior data, we found that far-right supporters were almost twice as likely to be vaccine-hesitant than the overall population in December 2020, before vaccines became available. However, with a successful vaccine roll out, this difference shrank, reaching non-significance by September 2021. From October 2021, howev

SUBMITTER: Serrano-Alarcon M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10066477 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature