Factors influencing Covid-19 vaccine acceptance across subgroups in the United States: Evidence from a conjoint experiment.

ABSTRACT: Public health officials warn that the greatest barrier to widespread vaccination against Covid-19 will not be scientific or technical, but the considerable public hesitancy to take a novel vaccine. Understanding the factors that influence vaccine acceptance is critical to informing public health campaigns aiming to combat public fears and ensure broad uptake. Employing a conjoint experiment embedded on an online survey of almost 2,000 adult Americans, we show that the effects of seven vaccine attributes on subjects' willingness to vaccinate vary significantly across subgroups. Vaccine efficacy was significantly more influential on vaccine acceptance among whites than among Blacks, while bringing a vaccine to market under a Food and Drug Administration Emergency Use Authorization had a stro

SUBMITTER: Kreps SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8064867 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature