Detecting and describing stability and change in COVID-19 vaccine receptibility in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 continues to pose a threat to global public health. Multiple safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19 are available with one-third of the global population now vaccinated. Achieving a sufficient level of vaccine coverage to suppress COVID-19 requires, in part, sufficient acceptance among the public. However, relatively high rates of hesitance and resistance to COVID-19 vaccination persists, threating public health efforts to achieve vaccine-induced population protection. In this study, we examined longitudinal changes in COVID-19 vaccine acceptance, hesitance, and resistance in two nations (the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) during the first nine months of the pandemic, and identified individual and psychological factors associated with consistent non-acceptance o

SUBMITTER: Hyland P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8565732 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature