Republican voters are more likely than Democrats to report side effects after receiving COVID-19 vaccinations, a study has found.
A Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine is seen at a drugstore in Cypress, Texas, Sept. 20, 2023. On Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the updated COVID-19 vaccine was 54% effective at preventing symptomatic infection …
According to the researchers, the study is the first to examine the link between voting patterns and reported side effects. They pointed to earlier data showing that counties that voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020 had“These results suggest that either the perception of vaccine or the motivation to report them was associated with political inclination,” the researchers wrote.
“As there is no physiological plausibility to vaccine side effects tracking with political ideology, the study is an example of how the value of the vaccine, for some individuals, is not based on its biological characteristics but on what value the majority of the tribe they belong to assigns it,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease specialist and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
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