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Your perception that vaccine hesitancy is limited to insular and uneducated groups of people is off the mark. 25% of eligible Americans still haven't taken the
by AndrewBissell 5y ago
Your perception that vaccine hesitancy is limited to insular and uneducated groups of people is off the mark. 25% of eligible Americans still haven't taken the vaccine despite months of unending propaganda across all forms of media, intense social pressure, and even threats of job loss.
- pbaka 5y agoThere was a study at Carnegie Mellon University with 500K respondents which would seem to corroborate what you write. The most hesitant in the US were the least educated (basic formal education) and the most educated (PhD's). Journalistic summary : https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9893465/Americans-PhDs-reluctant-vaccinated-against-COVID-study-finds.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9893465/Americans-P... The original publication : https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2021/july/covid-hesitancy.html https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2021/july/cov...
- retrac 5y agoI have a similar hard time intuitively believing 30% of rural Albertans refuse to be vaccinated when 92% have been here in Toronto. But there are pockets where people aren't getting the same media diet and uniform messaging you or I were. Like tends to cluster with like.