The impact of national income and vaccine hesitancy on country-level COVID-19 vaccine uptake.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The rapid development and rollout of COVID-19 vaccines helped reduce the pandemic's mortality burden. The vaccine rollout, however, has been uneven; it is well known that vaccination rates tend to be lower in lower income countries. Vaccine uptake, however, ultimately depends on the willingness of individuals to get vaccinated. If vaccine confidence is low, then uptake will be low, regardless of country income level. We investigated the impact on country-level COVID-19 vaccination rates of both national income and vaccine hesitancy.

Methods

We estimated a linear regression model of COVID-19 vaccine uptake across 145 countries; this cross-sectional model was estimated at each of four time points: 6, 12, 18, and 24 months after the onset of global vaccine distributi

SUBMITTER: Moradpour J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10621822 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature