AUSTIN, Texas — Just as a highly transmissible variant prompts officials to extend COVID-19 emergency status, one of the largest surveys ever conducted shows people are more willing to get vaccinated when health workers reveal how many others are doing so.
The massive global survey spawned two papers — one recently published in Nature Human Behavior and another in Nature Communications —showing people greatly underestimate vaccine uptake — both worldwide and in their own communities. “Our study shows that accurate information about what most other people are doing can substantially increase intentions to accept a COVID-19 vaccine,” says Avinash Collis , co-author and assistant professor of information, risk, and operations management at The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.
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Global survey on COVID-19 beliefs, behaviours and norms
9-Jan-2023