Vaccine hesitancy is going down worldwide, but countries like Russia and Australia still have high percentages of people skeptical about the shot.
As the U.S. attempts to combat widespread vaccine hesitancy and persuade more Americans to get the Covid-19 shot, new
from Morning Consult finds even higher rates of people unwilling or uncertain about getting the vaccine in countries like Russia, Australia and South Korea—while nearly everyone in India and China is planning to get inoculated.... [+]Among 40,408 U.S. respondents polled between May 25-31, 31% were either unwilling or uncertain about getting the Covid-19 vaccine—19% are unwilling and 12% are uncertain—which is the sixth-highest vaccine hesitancy rate among the 15 countries Morning Consult polled.
Russia had the highest vaccine hesitancy rate with 53% unwilling or uncertain, followed by Australia , South Korea , Japan and France . The countries with the lowest rates of vaccine hesitancy are the United Kingdom , India and China , according to the poll, which surveyed between 1,864 and 4,566 respondents within non-U.S. countries.
Other North American countries have markedly lower rates of vaccine hesitancy than the U.S.: 19% of those in Mexico are uncertain or unwilling to get vaccinated, and 17% say the same in Canada.polled had rates of vaccine hesitancy that are on par with or lower than the U.S.: In addition to France, 30% of Germans are uncertain or unwilling to get the vaccine, along with 20% in Italy and 17% in Spain.
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