Clearly, as stated in the article, people respond to their individual perceived risk for taking or not taking the vaccine (and their perceptions are linked to t

Clearly, as stated in the article, people respond to their individual perceived risk for taking or not taking the vaccine (and their perceptions are linked to the groups they identify with). I really wish articles like this would discuss statistics from elsewhere in the world. Are right-leaning individuals more likely to avoid the vaccine because of things that Trump said? Or is it part of being right-winged (perhaps a distrust for government and a disposition to see conspiracies everywhere, much as the left seems predisposed to see -isms as the cause of most problems). If we compared people not under the US influence -- perhaps from non-English speaking parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa -- we might be able to tease this apart better. I also think the efforts to combat misinformation are sorely backfiring. It is so frustrating that communication on the big tech platforms is being censored; nothing helps science flourish better than by shutting up the people you disagree with, right?