Will People Accept a COVID-19 Vaccine? With Gretchen Chapman, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Scientists are racing to develop a safe, effective, vaccine for COVID-19 – but will people be willing to take it when it's available? We already have a flu vaccine, but less than half of Americans get it each year. Gretchen Chapman, PhD, a cognitive psychologist who studies health behavior, discusses why people choose to get vaccinated–or not–and how policymakers can encourage vaccination. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.9	end of the script. Scientists around the world are racing to produce a safe and effective vaccine
0:34.6	for the virus that causes COVID-19. Just months after the new coronavirus emerged
0:39.9	in China, researchers are testing 40 vaccines in clinical trials in humans and exploring 92 others in
0:46.9	pre-clinical studies, according to the New York Times vaccine tracker. But developing an effective
0:52.8	vaccine is only part of the battle. Even once one is available,
0:57.1	enough people will have to be willing to take it to prevent the spread of the disease,
1:01.1	and that may not be easy. An August Gallup poll found deep skepticism among many Americans
1:07.1	about a potential COVID-19 vaccine. 35% said they would not take a food and drug administration approved vaccine,
1:15.4	even if it were provided to them for free.
1:18.2	The numbers were even higher among non-white Americans,
1:21.4	41% of whom would refuse a COVID vaccine,
1:24.8	and among Republicans, 53% of whom said they wouldn't take it either.
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