COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has decreased, survey saysOf 1,061 people who were hesitant about receiving the COVID-19 vaccine at the end of 2020, 32% were at least partially vaccinated by spring 2021, and 37% said they were likely to be, according to a research letter published today in JAMA Network Open.The researchers surveyed 3,439 people from Aug 9 to Dec 8, 2020, of whom 1,061 said they were vaccine hesitant.
While follow-up from Mar 2 to Apr 21, 2021, showed that most people in this subgroup were either vaccinated (32%) or said they were likely to be (37%), 32% said they were unlikely to be vaccinated.Of the 2,378 people who were not hesitant at baseline, 54% had received at least one dose at follow-up, while 39% said they were likely