About 71% of Americans would get a vaccine for the coronavirus if it were free and widely available, a large increase from a week ago, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Washington Post and ABC News.
Those results, obtained by a phone survey of a random sample of 1,001 adults from May 25 to May 28, show a significant increase in the number of people who say they would opt to be vaccinated. A poll released last week by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, for example, found that only half of Americans would get the vaccine.
According to the Washington Post poll, interest in the vaccine varies along political lines. About 8 in 10 Democrats said they would definitely or probably receive the vaccination, while less than 6 in 10 Republicans said the same.
Half of respondents who would not get the vaccine said their hesitation was mostly due to distrust in vaccines in general, while 23% said they believed a vaccine was not necessary to protect against Covid-19.
In general, people who reported being worried about contracting the virus or spreading it to their family members—63%—were more willing to get vaccinated. Eighty-one percent of those respondents said they would be more likely to receive a vaccine, compared to 52% of people who said they were not as worried about becoming ill with the virus.
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