One in five Americans have already expressed unwillingness to get an eventual COVID-19 vaccine
against misinformation accusations. It remains a possibility that foreign governments typically antagonistic towards Washington will decide that a vaccinated America is better for their own nations’ public health and economic growth.to resuming anything resembling normal life. But on a societal level, vaccines only work if they’re widely adopted. Experts say that 50% to 80% of the public will need immunity before COVID-19 is slowed enough to mostly resume our typical lives.
Researchers say that although the anti-vaxxer movement is small, it can have an outsize impact on social media discourse. A study published inlast week found that clusters of anti-vaccination tend to become more entwined with clusters of undecided clusters, while pro-vaccination clusters tend to be on the margins.
Wagner is also concerned that people may grow even less willing to get a COVID-19 vaccine in the time it takes for one to become available. During the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, he says, people grew more reluctant to get vaccinated over time, possibly because their sense of danger from the outbreak decreased. “I’m worried that as we progress through this, people might get more and more fatigued, and acceptance [of a vaccine] will decrease,” he says.
Of course, many Americans are anxiously awaiting a vaccine and will line up for one the second it’s available. President Trump and his administration have so far been working to assure the public that a vaccine will be available quickly (Trump’s timeline is
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