Understanding hesitancy with revealed preferences across COVID-19 vaccine types.

ABSTRACT: Many countries have secured larger quantities of COVID-19 vaccines than their population is willing to take. The abundance and the large variety of vaccines created not only an unprecedented intensity of vaccine related public discourse, but also a historical moment to understand vaccine hesitancy better. Yet, the heterogeneity of hesitancy by vaccine types has been neglected in the existing literature so far. We address this problem by analysing the acceptance and the assessment of five vaccine types. We use information collected with a nationally representative survey at the end of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary. During the vaccination campaign, individuals could reject the assigned vaccine to wait for a more preferred alternative that enables us to quantify revealed

SUBMITTER: Kutasi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9345393 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature