POLL: Two-thirds of Americans say they won't get COVID-19 vaccine when it's first available
Two-thirds of U.S. voters say they won't try to get a coronavirus vaccine as soon as it becomes available and one in four say they don't want to get it ever, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk poll released the same week that the number of COVID-19 cases surpassed 6 million.
Experts say the level of public resistance to an immunization against a virus that has already killed more than 185,000 Americans is concerning because it undermines the utility of the vaccine. The poll, taken Aug. 28-31, surveyed registered voters by cell phone and landline and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
Some experts say that voters of color will need to be reassured about the vaccine due to often being treated poorly by those in the medical field. Eileen Burnatt-Hall, a Democrat from Palmdale, California, and Debra Hall, a Republican from Farmington, New Mexico, would immediately get the vaccine once it's available. Both likened it to the flu shot.
Forty-one percent of those surveyed would not get the coronavirus vaccine if the federal government mandated it versus 50% of those who said they would. “If they’re forcing me to get something like that, it makes me think more that there’s something behind it," he said.
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