Survey shows that almost a quarter of Americans will refuse a COVID-19 vaccine

[AllyCat]

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By Kristin Lunz Trujillo and Matt Motta

The availability of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus will likely play a key role in determining when Americans can return to life as usual. Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on April 30 announced that a vaccine could even be available by January 2021.
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Whether a vaccine can end this pandemic successfully, however, depends on more than its effectiveness at providing immunity against the virus, or how quickly it can be produced in mass quantities. Americans also must choose to receive the vaccine.

According to some estimates, 50% to 70% of Americans would need to develop immunity to COVID-19 – either naturally, or via a vaccine – in order to thwart the spread of the virus. If these estimates are correct, that could mean that nearly twice as many Americans would need to elect to receive a COVID-19 vaccine than those who currently opt to be vaccinated against seasonal influenza. Just 37% of American adults did so in 2017-2018, even in the midst of a historically severe flu season.

[link:https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-05-04/many-vaccine-skeptics-plan-to-refuse-a-covid-19-vaccine-study-suggests|

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I literally cannot understand how people got so stupid. This is just another example of how far away we have gotten from science and into the realm of woo.

[beachbumbob]

1. we don't make it a choice

[Lochloosa]

3. [phone]

[AllyCat]

4. These idiots are killing people because they don't want to wear a mask

I can hardly believe we will be successful in getting people wrestled down for a vaccination. I think it is time to move to a thinking country, for me anyway.

[SoonerPride]

7. Agree. This isn't optional.

Unless you have a specific and verifiable medical condition which precludes you getting a vaccine, you are given this shot. Period.

[Crunchy Frog]

45. Much more easily said than done.

People would get killed trying to enforce it. Picture large groups of heavily armed "resistors" engaging in shootouts with people attempting to forcibly vaccinate them.

Plus I don't think it would stand up in the courts.

[fescuerescue]

58. That's not a practical reality

Putting aside the logistics for forcing 300 million people to take an injection against their will, I don't think there is a legal basis to do so either.

Vaccinations today are compelled via the desire to work or go to school.

[Wounded Bear]

2. For me, it depends...

if someone offers a vaccine in the next 4 months, there is no way I would trust it.

[beachbumbob]

5. no one is going to be offering a valid vaccine in 4 months

[Wounded Bear]

8. And? The question was pretty vague on that.

Trusting big pharma is not something I want to risk the last few years I have on.

Next year sometime, I'll come around. I get flu shots every year. I'm no anti-vaxxer. But I don't expect capitalism to overcome science.

[beachbumbob]

11. I am not so pessimistic. a valid vaccine is a valid vaccine vs dying a painful death?

[AllyCat]

6. Of course not. There is no reason to believe we would have a safe and effective vaccine

in that amount of time. Even January sounds almost fantastical. But given a safe and effective vaccine, I would be the first one in line if we can afford it. Don't know if I would trust the Trump Brand vaccine though.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Which I agree with. I'm not an anti-vaxxer, but I don't trust capitalism much...nt

[mathematic]

29. Wow, 'dying to own the libs" from the left

Big pharma and capitalism routinely develop and deliver effect life saving medicines. This is why people complain about their prices. Because their medicines work.

[Wounded Bear]

34. You really went there?

What I don't trust is that the CDC, the regulating agency, has been polluted with Trump sycophants that won't properly vet the vaccine process. Something like this looks like it will be a big cash cow, so I'll be self-vigilant, thank you very much.

[mathematic]

35. I'm even more surprised that you pivoted to a libertarian justification

Blaming the government and promoting "self-vigilance".

But, hey, nevermind all the everyday scientists, doctors, and regulators out there determined to stall a global pandemic, somebody out there is making money.

[Wounded Bear]

36. Good lord, you are well stocked with the names to label...

[uponit7771]

42. +1, no rational person who's been paying attention would trust those agencies now

[qwlauren35]

21. Be positive

It will NOT be the Trump vaccine.

It will be the BIDEN vaccine.

[shockey80]

31. I would not trust a vaccine while Trump is president, period.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

32. I would. I'd volunteer to be part of the testing.

I was a guinea pig for the Salk vaccine, back when Polio was a real horror. I'd do it again.

[NutmegYankee]

44. I would gladly accept a vaccine in 4 months. No concern on safety.

Some dead proteins are not going to be dangerous. The real risk is it's ineffective.

[Squinch]

9. If it comes out of the administration of Donnie Bodybags, I will not take it.

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[tavernier]

14. Joe will be President by then.

I’ll trust his judgment. And the one thing Trump did was to give all future presidents total power, so we will be able to legally hold them down and stab them in the butt with a needle.

[uponit7771]

43. After a house cleaning, the CDC wouldn't get as bad as it is without so many functionaries in it

... right now.

[Phoenix61]

12. Even most anti-vaxers would get a covid vaccine.

“We also asked respondents if they self-identified as anti-vaxxers, and nearly 16% said they did. For those that identified as anti-vaxxers, 44% said they would not vaccinate against COVID-19, compared to 19% of people who did not identify as anti-vaxxers.”

[CountAllVotes]

13. I am not allowed to get vaccines

Persons w/compromised immune systems are told NOT to get vaccines as the results can be deathly.

Being this is my case, I do not get vaccines.

The last time I got one (almost accidentally) I got quite sick from it and I've been told NO VACCINES for me.

This is the case for others in the population as well.

Luckily, it is not common!

[DrToast]

37. What about mRNA vaccines?

That's supposed to be one of the benefits of those. They are safer than traditional vaccines.

[CountAllVotes]

39. I don't know

[CountAllVotes]

51. No I was not vaccinated with mRNA

I had these diseases, that is why.

Measles, mumps, Rubella and chicken pox.

Forgot abt. what mRNA was!

I won't bother to get into the story abt. my late brother as the MMR vaccine almost killed him. After that, my mother only had us vaccinated against polio, the sugar cube. That was the end of it.

So no is the answer, not the mRNA or the MMR.

[OregonBlue]

15. Thus proving Darwin's theory .

[AllyCat]

18. Except these idiots will take regular science believers

and others, many who can’t be vaccinated, with them.

[OregonBlue]

47. You are correct but hopefully they'll take mostly their own.

[Marrah_Goodman]

16. Bill Gates is going to use the vaccine to inject us with microchips......

or so I hear.

[MadLinguist]

23. Absurd, yes. Comical not so much

when you consider the demographic of people who subscribe to some version of that tripe. The information diet of our fellow citizens is in a chokehold produced by generations of betrayals of trust...by the media underreporting on poverty, economic and ecological injustices, by the government both tacitly and openly endorsing redlining practices, educational inequalities, blind eyeing signals of distress at the barriers to opportunity for some folks while glad handing the ready made opportunity catapults for others... the list is long and grievous. So, in the absence of trust for sources of information that you, I and most of the people on this site may take for granted as being reasonably reliable, shyte like the Gates-Fauci plan to steal DNA or souls or implant chips flourish and evolve. In 2016 those information infectants were deployed to depress voter turnout in many quarters. This time around, they are more likely being targeted to vote in ways that help them conform to the crap they are being fed now. and no way no how ever consent to be vaccinated against covid19. Just my 2 cents, but it's what I've been seeing.

[Marrah_Goodman]

25. Even some educated people and even some liberal people believe this stuff

Youtube is filled with people who are "awake" and "know the truth". I am sharing a house with someone who is retired and has all day long to watch nutters fill her head with crap. SO many conspiracy theories and she believes them all. I often times have to make and excuse to go do something when she starts telling me about them. No worries about her voting for Trump though. She hates him almost as much as I do (which is a lot).

[MadLinguist]

33. good to know that your housemate is not a trump fan, but I'll bet she can be induced

to vote for some kook who descries actual science, based on a shared sense of grievance. And yeah, this 5G nonsense with or without the Fauci-is-the-devil narrative is everywhere, and at least in my experience with its adherents, unshakably embedded in a very short time. I find this chilling. It's instant us & them polarization.

[ibegurpard]

17. With this group in charge?

And medical experts willing to go along with them? Count me as a vaccine skeptic when it comes to this one.

[AllyCat]

19. 45's bought vaccine? No. The rest of the world is working on it

They will come forth with a real vaccine. What say you then?

[ibegurpard]

20. We'll see where it comes from and who's touting it

Anyone who's sold their credibility to prop up the Trump administration gets an ignore from me.

[blueinredohio]

22. When we get a new government I will get a vaccine. Not until then.

[tirebiter]

24. The desert has room for antivaxxers

Plenty of room. Nice Big beach.

[Initech]

26. Anti vaxxers can go lick subway poles.

This is important and it transcends any and all bullshit you read on your social media feeds. This virus is proof of why we need vaccines.

[milestogo]

27. There is a dental asst at my dentists office who doesn't take vaccines for religious reasons.

Her children don't get vaccines either. She's a very nice lady and does her job well.

I'm sorry, but I don't think she should be working in healthcare if she won't take the coronavirus vaccine when it becomes available. And she should be home schooling her 7 children...

[LiberalFighter]

28. Need to brand anyone that does not vaccinate.

Well we can hope for it.

[dawg]

30. Bye bye herd immunity.

Bye bye economy.

Helloooooo Idiocracy!

[ecstatic]

38. Count me in among the stupid. I'm not going to accept the "warp speed" vaccine that trump &

kushner are cooking up.

I mean, ffs, we just got an inkling of what's going on behind the scenes from the whistleblower. Science is NOT being prioritized in trump's corrupt admin--it's all about money and connections. It appears HHS went along with the corruption and ordered hydroxychloroquine from untested facilities in India and Pakistan. So... yeah... no.

Of course, my feelings will be different if and when regular order resumes under a new president, by which time researchers will have had adequate time to study and understand how this novel virus works.

[AllyCat]

40. There are reasonable people in the world using science to create a vaccine

We do not have to accept what 45 peddles.

[GoCubsGo]

54. Yep. I don't trust anything coming from Trump, either.

But, I do trust the scientists, who are working all around the world to provide a vaccine. Once they come up with one that is safe and effective, you're damn right I'm getting it. I will remain highly skeptical of anything Trump pushes on his own.

[ribrepin]

41. Fine - more for the rest of us

[Victor_c3]

46. If it's expedited and didn't go through the proper vetting process, I'd be at the back of the line

I certainly believe in vaccines (as if that’s something you can believe or not believe in ). I’d just be reluctant for a bit and rather continue to isolate than mess myself up.

[Hortensis]

48. Spiteful opposition. That will drop dramatically when one is available. nt

[AllyCat]

49. I hope you are right

[Hortensis]

50. I hope what comes between doesn't make it an understatement.

Although, strong as self preservation is, no counting on even most them to react rationally, not while they're still dutifully marching to the orders of Republican leaders.

[lame54]

52. That # will change...

When it's an actual thing and not theoretical

[GoCubsGo]

53. I always said that if I could do things over again,

I'd have gone into bio-med research, and created a virus that is fatal to stupidity. It seems that Mother Nature is doing just that, all on her own.

[Aristus]

55. Not a bit surprised.

I wonder how many of these hammerheads I'm going to have to kick out of my clinic for being too stupid to live.

[obamanut2012]

56. Then make it mandatory

Like we've done before.

[fescuerescue]

57. I won't refuse it. But I won't be at the head of the line either

Ever seen rushed software at version 1.0?

And then there is the reality of trusting Trump that it is safe.