Covid-19 Vaccine Confidence Grows As Survey Shows Side Effect Worries Fading

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COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Grows As Survey Shows Side Effect Worries Fading.

Confidence in Covid-19 vaccines is growing, with people’s willingness to have the shots increasing as they are rolled out across the world and concerns about possible side effects are fading, a 14-country survey has revealed.

Co-led by Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) and the polling firm YouGov, the survey found trust in Covid-19 vaccines had risen in nine out of 14 countries covered, including France, Japan and Singapore which had previously had low levels of confidence.

The latest update of the survey, which ran from Feb 8 to Feb 21, found that people in the UK are the most willing, with 77 per cent saying they would be willing to take a vaccine designed to protect against Covid-19 if one was available that week.

This is up from 55 per cent in November, shortly before the first Covid-19 vaccine – co-developed by Pfizer and BioNTech – gained regulatory approval for use in Britain.

People in France, Singapore and Japan remained among the least willing to have a Covid-19 vaccine, at 40 per cent, 48 per cent and 48 per cent, respectively – but all three have seen confidence rising since November when only 25 per cent, 36 per cent and 39 per cent of people were positive.

The survey also found that worries over vaccine side effects have faded in the majority of countries, with fewer than half (45 per cent) of all respondents currently reporting a concern. Again, people in France, Singapore and Japan are currently most worried about side effects, with around six in 10 feeling concerned (56 per cent, 59 per cent, 61 per cent), while the UK is the least concerned.

The latest survey involved over 13,500 people in Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain and Sweden.


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