Lack of Trust, Conspiracy Beliefs, and Social Media Use Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

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Will Jennings1, Gerry Stoker1, Hannah Bunting1, Viktor Orri Valgarðsson1, Jennifer Gaskell1, Daniel Devine2, Lawrence McKay1, Melinda Mills3
1School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
2St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX4 1DY, UK.
3Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science & Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1NF, UK.

Tóm tắt

As COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out across the world, there are growing concerns about the roles that trust, belief in conspiracy theories, and spread of misinformation through social media play in impacting vaccine hesitancy. We use a nationally representative survey of 1476 adults in the UK between 12 and 18 December 2020, along with 5 focus groups conducted during the same period. Trust is a core predictor, with distrust in vaccines in general and mistrust in government raising vaccine hesitancy. Trust in health institutions and experts and perceived personal threat are vital, with focus groups revealing that COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is driven by a misunderstanding of herd immunity as providing protection, fear of rapid vaccine development and side effects, and beliefs that the virus is man-made and used for population control. In particular, those who obtain information from relatively unregulated social media sources—such as YouTube—that have recommendations tailored by watch history, and who hold general conspiratorial beliefs, are less willing to be vaccinated. Since an increasing number of individuals use social media for gathering health information, interventions require action from governments, health officials, and social media companies. More attention needs to be devoted to helping people understand their own risks, unpacking complex concepts, and filling knowledge voids.

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