Relationship between lay and expert perceptions of COVID-19 vaccine development timelines in Canada and USA.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Compare lay expectations of medical development to those of experts in the context of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development.

Methods

A short online survey of experts and lay people measuring when participants believe important vaccine milestones would occur and how likely potential setbacks were. Samples of US and Canadian lay people recruited through Qualtrics. The expert sample was created through a contact network in vaccine development and supplemented with corresponding authors of recent scholarly review articles on vaccine development.

Results

In aggregate, lay people gave responses that were within 3 months of experts, tending to be later than experts for early milestones and earlier for later milestones. Median lay best estimates for when a vaccine would b

SUBMITTER: Kane PB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8846503 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature