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Poll: Only 42% of Americans Plan to Get COVID-19 Vaccine

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Are you planning to get the COVID-19 vaccine when it comes out? A majority of Americans are saying no — including Dr. Paul Offit, rotavirus vaccine inventor and director of the Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

According to Yahoo! News, in May 55% of Americans said they would get the vaccine, but a new poll, conducted July 28 to July 30, shows that number has slipped to 42%. Skepticism on the vaccine’s safety and suspicion that corners are being cut to rush it to market are some of the reasons people gave for being hesitant now.

Offit, who is a major proponent for vaccines, said if he’d been polled, he would have said no, he wasn’t planning to get it yet, either, and that he was surprised when an earlier poll came out showing that “two-thirds of the public was willing to get it sight unseen.”

SOURCES:

Yahoo! News August 4, 2020

Twitter August 3, 2020