Public health officials say a promising coronavirus vaccine is on it's way in 2021. But does that matter if only half of Americans say they're willing to get such a vaccination?
The second patient in a first-stage study of a potential vaccine for COVID-19 receives a shot in in March at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle.The second patient in a first-stage study of a potential vaccine for COVID-19 receives a shot in in March at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle.Scientists are in a sprint to find a vaccine that could stamp out the coronavirus pandemic. Dr.
she co-authored found that less than 10% of all respondents said they would embrace a vaccine, with many believing the perceived side effects would outweigh a relatively mild illness.But COVID-19 is deadlier than the swine flu, and she says the current opposition to a coronavirus vaccine is rooted in a climate of conflicting information.
"We have forces that undermine science, contradictory messages day in and day out that create skepticism and diminish trust in government," she told NPR'sFor example, she said"Operation Warp Speed," the Trump administration's name for the push to deliver an effective COVID-19 vaccine by early 2021, sends the wrong message.
She thinks that terminology has Americans worried that a speedy rollout for a vaccine might come at the expense of safety. "What that does, I think, is automatically raise a concern by many that, you know, we have Dr. Fauci and others who know vaccine research saying typically it takes years," she said."We are still looking for an HIV vaccine, right. Decades later."Boosting American confidence in vaccines starts with educating the public about the vaccine trial processes, Quinn said — a handful of which are well underway.
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