This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Saturday, October 2nd, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

New polling on vaccines from the Cato Institute indicates a few things.

For one, financial consequences are probably

not the best way to get people to make the choice of getting vaccinated.

Cato's Jeff Singer discusses the new polling.

Despite the fact that there are a lot of Americans, most Americans who have gotten at least one

dose of a vaccine against COVID-19, there exists a group of people who have not for is it a variety of reasons or is it just

one or two reasons that people are have decided not to get a vaccine. Well, the Cato Institute in UGov conducted a poll from September 6th to 13th, and we found that first of all at that time 67% of the 2,000 people that we

questioned had received at least one dose and out of the remaining 33% who were unvaccinated,

a little bit less than half of them

appeared persuadable.

The reasons they were given were either they were waiting to see how other people did because they were concerned about, you know, side effects or whatever.

Or they just, they were intending to do it but just hadn't gotten around to it.

Or some said, well, I'll do it if I have to from required,

but otherwise I'm not going to.

Then it was about 17% of that 33%, so a little over half, who were just dug in.

They said under no circumstances will I get vaccinated?

So you did have, we discovered that there

a pool of people who are persuadable who haven't yet gotten vaccinated.

In fact, if you add the number of people who are persuadable to the number of people

who have already gotten vaccinated you're over 80% of the population getting

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