Percentage of Americans who say they won't get vaccinated drops to record low in new poll

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

The percentage of Americans who say they will never get vaccinated against the coronavirus has dropped to a new low, according to a new poll.

The Axios-Ipsos poll published on Tuesday found 20 percent of Americans said they either are not very likely or not likely at all to receive a vaccine. That represents a new low in the survey and is down from a combined 34 percent in March and 23 percent two weeks ago, Axios noted.

The factors driving down vaccine hesitancy, the survey found, were a surge in delta variant cases, the return of children to schools in recent days and the Food and Drug Administration's granting of full approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine earlier this month.

"Schools, organizations, companies, governments implementing mandates are forcing people to deal with them," Cliff Young of Ipsos said in an analysis published with the survey's results. "That's what going on."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/percentage-of-americans-who-say-they-wont-get-vaccinated-drops-to-record-low-in-new-poll/ar-AANWcca?ocid=NL_ENUS_D1_20210831_3_2

[modrepub]

1. Only Die-hards Left Now

(Pun intended)

[calimary]

15. Fine with me.

As the hospitals drown in COVID patients, I'm simply out of patience.

[Xoan]

2. WTF is a record low?

Spin baby, spin.

[Auggie]

6. 20% of about 331,000,000*?

2020 UN estimate

So about 66,200,000, give or take a few million (rough estimate because adults polled probably have children)

[Beastly Boy]

4. Darwin scores again!

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Do you wish to be vaccinated, or would your prefer the to-be-eliminated by COVID pile?

Do they understand much of anything?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

10. Hey anti-vaxxers: better clean out your icebox so your family will have a place to store your body.

The morgues are nearly all filled.

Of course, you can always get a DIY cremation kit, which includes charcoal briquettes, lighter fluid, matches, and a Trump flag to drape over your corpse as it burns. Marshmallows not included.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. That is a YouTube video begging to be made - The Cremation Creation

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

13. It's already been done:

It's on how to cremate a dead parrot (see Monty Python, below), but the principles are the same. Just scale everything up...a lot!

Rather than watch that admittedly depressing video, here's Monty Python's "The Dead Parrot" sketch:

[packman]

7. Another factor - Business's requiring shots for employment

[Liberty Belle]

8. 2 scary stats to show the hesitant: Unvaxed 29 times more apt to be hospitalized; delta doubles risk

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/24/cdc-study-shows-unvaccinated-people-are-29-times-more-likely-to-be-hospitalized-with-covid.html

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/27/health/delta-covid-19-hospital-risk-study-wellness/index.html

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. I have a friend who got a tetanus shot today and there was a long line of people getting vaccinates

The nurse said that the line has been long for a while. This is good news

[LiberalFighter]

12. Because it was mostly never vaccinated that have died?

[FakeNoose]

14. We only need to wait a little longer

[calimary]

16. Indeed.

[mountain grammy]

17. Ha.. so true!

It is good to see people finally coming around.

[48656c6c6f20]

18. Death can be a motivator I guess.

[IronLionZion]

19. Private employer mandates can be a strong motivating factor

lots of companies are doing that for non-union employees and some have reached deals with their unions too.

[PoliticAverse]

20. "who say they will never get vaccinated"

Social Desirability Bias...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-desirability_bias

In social science research, social-desirability bias is a type of response bias that is the tendency of survey respondents to answer questions in a manner that will be viewed favorably by others.[1] It can take the form of over-reporting "good behavior" or under-reporting "bad", or undesirable behavior. The tendency poses a serious problem with conducting research with self-reports. This bias interferes with the interpretation of average tendencies as well as individual differences.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. You Sure That Applies Here?

The vax resistant are vocal & proud of their refusal. Not sure that segment includes that many people who are considering refusal to be a bad behavior.
And, since 62.4% of those eligible have already gotten at least the first shot, the other side of the bias seems irrelevant.
I'm leaning toward workplace mandates (plus, regular testing & different treatment for unvaxxed vs. vaxxed) making the squeamish or apathetic get over it.
I buy this set of results.

[Grokenstein]

21. Startin' to wake up and smell the corpses, are they?

Guess word's getting around that the Horse Paste Flavor-Aid cocktail isn't working.
Y'got anything else, "Doctor" Paul?