What causes COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy? Ignorance and the lack of bliss in the United Kingdom

Josh Bullock; Justin E. Lane; F. Le Ron Shults

doi:10.1057/s41599-022-01092-w

What causes COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy? Ignorance and the lack of bliss in the United Kingdom

Josh Bullock, Justin E. Lane, F. Le Ron Shults

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Understanding vaccine hesitancy has become increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic as governments around the globe have been struggling to convince portions of their populations to participate in vaccination protocols. Here we report on a nationally representative survey of the United Kingdom in which data revealed that individuals indicated more willingness to take unfamiliar or fictitious vaccines (putatively produced by the US government health program Medicare and the now defunct fraudulent healthcare company Theranos) than they were to take the Sputnik and Sinovac vaccines (developed by the Russian and Chinese governments respectively). The data show that the critical factor in vaccine hesitancy among the respondents was anxiety rather than familiarity with vaccines.

Original language	English
Article number	87
Journal	Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Volume	9
Early online date	17 Mar 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01092-w
Publication status	Published - 17 Mar 2022

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Note: This work was supported by Kingston University and the Research Council of Norway.

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What causes COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy? Ignorance and the lack of bliss in the United Kingdom

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