Factors underlying COVID-19 vaccine and booster hesitancy and refusal, and incentivizing vaccine adoption

Neil G Bennett, David E Bloom and Maddalena Ferranna

PLOS ONE, 2022, vol. 17, issue 9, 1-11

Abstract: The paper investigates the factors underlying COVID-19 vaccine and booster hesitancy in the United States, and the efficacy of various incentives or disincentives to expand uptake. We use cross-sectional, national survey data on 3,497 U.S. adults collected online from September 10, 2021 to October 20, 2021 through the Qualtrics platform. Results from a multinomial logistic regression reveal that hesitancy and refusal were greatest among those who expressed a lack of trust either in government or in the vaccine’s efficacy (hesitancy relative risk ratio, or RRR: 2.86, 95% CI: 2.13–3.83, p

Date: 2022
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