MATH 225N Week 3 Lab Assignment; Article COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Attitude toward Booster Doses
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$15.00
| Term | Year 2022 |
| Institution | MATH 225N Statistical Reasoning for the Health Sciences |
| Contributor | Egreta Stone |
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, a pandemic on 11 March 2020 [1]. Since then, it has infected over 41 million individuals and led to more than 666,000 deaths in the US alone [2]. To contain the pandemic, several vaccine candidates were rapidly developed, rigorously tested, and made available for use. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to the first COVID-19 vaccine on 11 December 2020 [3]. Since then, vaccination efforts have been at the forefront of the measures to halt the pandemic and minimize further loss of lives. However, a low vaccine uptake can be a major barrier to containing the pandemic.
Healthcare workers (HCW) are a priority population for vaccination against COVID-19. As a high-risk population, HCW were prioritized as one of the first groups to receive the vaccine in keeping with recommendations by the Advisory Council on Immunization Practices [4]. HCW are also important sources of medical information and role modeling for the general population. Therefore, vaccine hesitancy among HCW can have widespread negative ramifications. We previously reported that, in the months preceding the an- nouncement of EUA for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, only one-third of HCW in the US were willing to take the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as it became available, with a majority choosing to wait several months before deciding [5]. In this study, we examine the attitudes and hesitancy of HCW toward COVID-19 vaccines months after they were made available for use in this population. We also report on the current attitudes of HCW toward hypothetical additional booster doses of the vaccines.
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| Term | Year 2022 |
| Institution | MATH 225N Statistical Reasoning for the Health Sciences |
| Contributor | Egreta Stone |
