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. 2023 Mar 17;41(12):1911-1915.
doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.01.024. Epub 2023 Jan 13.

Association of death or illness from COVID-19 among family and friends on vaccine uptake within four months of the Emergency Use Authorization. Findings from a national survey in the United States

Saurabh Kalra  1 , Deepak Kalra  2 , Irina Grafova  3 , Julia Sass Rubin  4 , Alan Monheit  5 , Joel Cantor  6 , Paul Duberstein  7 , Soumitra S Bhuyan  8
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Association of death or illness from COVID-19 among family and friends on vaccine uptake within four months of the Emergency Use Authorization. Findings from a national survey in the United States

Saurabh Kalra et al. Vaccine. .

Abstract

Objective: To examine the relationship between knowing that a friend or family member became ill with, or died from, COVID-19 and receiving a vaccine dose within four months of the FDA's Emergency Use Authorization.

Methods: A national sample of 1,517 respondents were surveyed from April 7 to April 12, 2021, 1,193 of whom were eligible for the vaccine when the data were collected.

Results: Respondents who knew someone who became ill with COVID-19 (AOR = 2.32, 95 % CI 1.74-3.09) or knew someone who died (AOR = 2.29, 95 % CI 1.32-3.99) from COVID-19 were more likely to receive at least a single COVID-19 vaccine dose.

Conclusion: Encouraging people to share their COVID-19 illness and bereavement experiences with their local network such as friends, families, social-networks and via social media might help increase vaccine uptake.

Keywords: COVID-19; Health Belief Model; Healthcare seeking behavior; Vaccine acceptance; Vaccine uptake.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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