Vaccines (Aug 2021)

Changing Attitudes toward the COVID-19 Vaccine among North Carolina Participants in the COVID-19 Community Research Partnership

  • Chukwunyelu H. Enwezor,
  • James E. Peacock,
  • Austin L. Seals,
  • Sharon L. Edelstein,
  • Amy N. Hinkelman,
  • Thomas F. Wierzba,
  • Iqra Munawar,
  • Patrick D. Maguire,
  • William H. Lagarde,
  • Michael S. Runyon,
  • Michael A. Gibbs,
  • Thomas R. Gallaher,
  • John W. Sanders,
  • David M. Herrington

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9080916
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 8
p. 916

Abstract

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Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccine acceptance is variable. We surveyed participants in the COVID-19 Community Research Partnership from 17 December 2020 to 13 January 2021 to assess vaccine receptiveness. Vaccine uptake was then monitored until 15 May 2021; 20,232 participants responded to the receptiveness survey with vaccination status accessed in 18,874 participants via daily follow-up surveys (participants not completing daily surveys ≥30 days to 15 May 2021, were excluded). In the initial survey, 4802 (23.8%) were vaccine hesitant. Hesitancy was most apparent in women (Adjusted RR 0.93, p p p p p p p p < 0.0001), respectively. These findings suggest that initial intent did not correlate with vaccine uptake in our cohort.

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