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. 2021 Mar 1;4(3):e215344.
doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.5344.

Trends in Health Care Worker Intentions to Receive a COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons for Hesitancy

Michelle N Meyer  1   2   3 , Tamara Gjorgjieva  1 , Daniel Rosica  1
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Trends in Health Care Worker Intentions to Receive a COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons for Hesitancy

Michelle N Meyer et al. JAMA Netw Open. .

Abstract

This survey study queried employees of a health care system before COVID-19 vaccine distribution to assess their intentions to receive a vaccine and to understand their reasons for hesitancy to do so.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Reasons for COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Sixteen percent of hesitant respondents provided additional reasons beyond those provided in the survey instrument. Those responses were categorized according to a developed codebook into 10 additional reasons, which are shown as the bottom 10 entries in the graph. FDA indicates US Food and Drug Administration.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Health Care Workers’ (HCWs) Intention to Take a COVID-19 Vaccine, Over Time
Panel A shows intentions reported by those who submitted the survey on each of 15 days the survey was open. Numbers in parentheses next to each date refer to the number of respondents who completed the survey during the relevant period. Panel B shows the intentions reported by those who submitted the survey before vs after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) vote to recommend the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine emergency use authorization (EUA) at 5:38 pm EST on December 10, 2020. CDC indicates Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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