Bullock, Josh, Lane, Justin E. and Shults, F. LeRon (2022) What causes COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy? Ignorance and the lack of bliss in the United Kingdom. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9, p. 87. ISSN (online) 2662-9992

Abstract

Understanding vaccine hesitancy has become increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic as governments around the globe have been struggling to convince portions of their populations to participate in vaccination protocols. Here we report on a nationally representative survey of the United Kingdom in which data revealed that individuals indicated more willingness to take unfamiliar or fictitious vaccines (putatively produced by the US government health program Medicare and the now defunct fraudulent healthcare company Theranos) than they were to take the Sputnik and Sinovac vaccines (developed by the Russian and Chinese governments respectively). The data show that the critical factor in vaccine hesitancy among the respondents was anxiety rather than familiarity with vaccines.

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Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01092-w
Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This work was supported by Kingston University and the Research Council of Norway.
Research Area:	Research Areas > Sociology
Faculty, School or Research Centre:	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Date Deposited:	18 Mar 2022 14:12
Last Modified:	20 Jun 2022 17:27
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01092-w
URI:	https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/51410

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