Friday, January 1, 2021

ADVENTURES IN COVID NEWS REPORTING. Vaccine or no vaccine: Who are you going to believe?

 



New York Times, 12/26/2020
In polls by Gallup, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Pew Research Center, the portion of people saying they are now likely or certain to take the vaccine has grown from about 50 percent this summer to more than 60 percent, and in one poll 73 percent — a figure that approaches what some public health experts say would be sufficient for herd immunity.

The latest evidence for this appears this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and it shows that skepticism toward the vaccines is on the rise among Americans of all stripes. 
Regardless of age, race or sex, U.S. adults were significantly less likely to say they'd get vaccinated in late November and early December than they were in early April.  [bold added]

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