- A new poll from The Economist/YouGov found 69% of U.S. adults have gotten vaccinated against COVID-19 or are planning to but 18% will not get the shot
- When asked if there was anything that could change their minds and convince them to be immunized, 79% of those uninterested in shots said ‘no’
- Those aged 45 to 64, making under $50,000 per year and who are Republicans were the most likely to say they won’t get the vaccine
- CDC data show that 58% of American adults have gotten one dose and 43.8% are fully immunized
- It comes as experts fear the U.S. will not achieve herd immunity and that COVID-19 will become an endemic disease, meaning it is always present
Mary Kekatos – Daily Mail May 10, 2021
American adults who are not planning to get vaccinated against COVID-19 insist there is nothing that could make them change their minds, a new poll reveals.
Nearly 70 percent of those surveyed by The Economist/YouGov,said they’ve already gotten the vaccine, are in the process of doing so or are planning to get it.
However, about 20 percent of adults said they will not be immunized and, when asked if they could be convinced to get the jab, almost 80 percent said ‘no.’
Prior studies have surveys have suggested that may vaccine hesitant people were taking a ‘wait and see’ approach to vaccines and might be more inclined to get them once more others had, without any major problems.
The new survey results suggest most who don’t want the shots now are digging their heels in, and comes amid fears that the U.S. will never achieve true herd immunity against the virus due to vaccine hesitancy.
For the poll, 1,500 U.S. adult citizens were surveyed online between May 1 and May 4 on several issues, including vaccinations.
One question asked respondents how they would describe their ‘personal situation’ regarding COVID-19 vaccines.
About 42 percent said they were fully vaccinated, 14 percent said they have received one dose and 13 percent said they plan to be – for a total of 69 percent.
Among age groups, adults over age 65 were the most likely to be fully vaccinated with 67 percent said they had completed their series while just 27 percent of those aged 18 to 29 said the same thing.
Vaccinations status also differed among party lines with 87 percent of Democrats fully vaccinated or planning to be compared to 56 percent of Republicans.
Meanwhile, 18 percent of U.S. adults said they do not plan to be inoculated against the coronavirus.
Respondents who are between ages 45 and 64, make under $50,000 per year and identify as Republican were the most likely to say they won’t get the vaccine.
When asked if anything could change their minds, 79 percent said nothing could do so.
Just five percent said ‘yes’ and 16 percent were unsure.
Now, several experts fear that herd immunity may not be feasible and that the U.S. may have to live with the virus forever. (Just like we’ve lived with seasonal colds and flu aeons. Ed.)
If they’re admitting to an 18% refusenik figure it’s just got to be higher because this is the lowest they can whittle it down to using wordplay and ambiguity. There are lies, damn lies and then there are statistics. Then there’s polls.
I never thought till now that they can use the “hesitancy” to keep the pantomime going on and on, meaning that people like Yeadon are part of it, or could be, as some have said.
I won’t take the Covid-19 vaccine (gene therapy), I would rather get attacked by an angry Wolverine on steroids.
There’s a bit of controversy if a government institution in the USA can force people to take the vaccine; interesting information from the notable Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health:
Once a COVID vaccine or vaccines are made available, could states mandate that people get them?
The short answer is yes. States have the legal and constitutional authority to require that the people who live in that state be vaccinated, or to introduce a vaccine mandate.
The authority for the state being able to compel vaccination—the affirmation of that authority—goes all the way back to a U.S. Supreme Court case in 1905 called Jacobson v. Massachusetts. That case arose in the midst of an outbreak of smallpox in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1902.
In that case, the Supreme Court—and —said that states have under their police powers, which is under the Constitution, the authority to enact reasonable regulations as necessary to protect public health, public safety, and the common good. Vaccination mandates constitute exactly that kind of permissible state action to protect the public’s health. Even though it’s 115 years old, this continues to be the benchmark case on the state’s power to mandate vaccination.
https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/articles/can-covid-19-vaccines-be-mandatory-in-the-u-s-and-who-decides.html
Surveys are wishful thinking. There are a lot more people who won’t take the lethal injection than you believe there are. It seems that The Economist is just “dying” to know how many people will be dying. Many of the “ELITE” will be dying when GOD takes hold on Judgment. I won’t be apologizing for anything the only true GOD does.
Let us do the Deagel math:
assume that those who do not get vaxx survive
14% + 18% = 32% = .32
.32 x 331 million USA pop = 107 million survive
which is very close to the Deagel 99 million
ANYTHING from the MSM is a lie.
Watch this pathetic vid – then read the comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0sg9G5BBVU
I completely agree with those in the comments section questioning the accuracy and reliability of the alleged poll. From my personal experience, the numbers in the piece are being skewed down significantly. Most of the people I deal with have expressed great reluctance or outright refusal to get the lethal injection of toxic sludge.
@ Brian USA.
“I would rather get attacked by an angry Wolverine on steroids.”
That’s a great phrase. It occurs to me that you could construct an educational game around your opening paragraph, along the lines of “Complete the sentence, ‘I won’t take the Covid vaccine (gene therapy), I would rather…’ ”
Here’s my effort. “I won’t take the Covid vaccine (gene therapy), I would rather sell bacon sandwiches and prime pork belly outside the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem on Saturdays.”