Vaccine Hesitancy for Covid-19: State, County, and Local Estimates

Why does the data change so much on the boundaries of states? I would expect the data to be locally correlated, and there wouldn't be discrepancies between neighboring rural counties that are in different states.

&quot;Hesitancy&quot; nice word. The implication that everyone <i>does</i> want this vaccine is nice; after all, not wanting it would be some sort of mental defect right?<p>&quot;My body, my choice&quot; ain&#x27;t just a political slogan; it makes sense. I&#x27;m glad these vaccines are available, but I had this crud early and I&#x27;ll pass on the vaccine thx.

It&#x27;s a good day to be a Masshole. According to the spreadsheet, MA is least hesitant by state and together with VT, sweeps the first 14 counties (and the first 19, if you ignore SF).

This is the survey question, as part of a broader Household Pulse Survey: “Once a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 is available to you, would you…get a vaccine?” No mention of a follow up for rationale.<p>via <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.cdc.gov&#x2F;stories&#x2F;s&#x2F;Vaccine-Hesitancy-for-COVID-19&#x2F;cnd2-a6zw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.cdc.gov&#x2F;stories&#x2F;s&#x2F;Vaccine-Hesitancy-for-COVID-1...</a>

This is a pretty interesting map&#x2F;graph. I also like that they linked to the data in table form.<p>Not really surprised at the areas that are darkest, but still feel worried that lots of areas near 20%. Specifically the levels of non-Hispanic Black hesitancy in the South is really rough.<p>Hopefully over time this improves especially as private enterprises put some pressure on getting vaccinated

Link to leaflet map:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aspe.hhs.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;interactive_hesitancy_county_week26_final_fixed.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aspe.hhs.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;interactive_hesitan...</a>

Good information about where to consider moving for remote work

The contrast of the Dakotas to Minnesota indicates to me the impact of state leadership &#x2F; communication.

I hope this will change the more people have been vaccinated and are eligible. I know several people who a few months ago said that they would &quot;never&quot; get the vaccine and a few months they all got it or are in line.<p>Every 4 years you also have a lot of people saying &quot;if XXX wins the presidency I&#x27;ll move to Canada&#x2F;Mexico&quot;. They are all still there.<p>It&#x27;s good to ask people but they also change their minds quickly once they have more information.

As someone who moved from Seattle to San Diego recently, I am happy to see both areas doing very well with regards to vaccine hesitancy!<p>Having grown up in San Diego, I actually find it somewhat surprising how low the hesitancy is.

Tentative thinking... As someone who likely had CoV in early 2020, and who has had 1 of 2 Moderna vaccines, I am getting my antibodies tested every few months. At the point at which they start declining I would feel better get the 2nd dose; or if the booster is released beforehand. That aside, I can&#x27;t see the upside in my second dose given the long haul reaction I had to dose #1. I wish the CDC would weigh in formally on 2nd doses for those who had Covid and&#x2F;or high antibody responses.

I&#x27;ve heard and read a lot about this in the past couple weeks and I sincerely hope public health officials and media don&#x27;t freak out. We need to stay the course on this and emphasize the positive.<p>1. Vaccines are still difficult to get in a lot of places. I and my partner only just got appointments for this weekend for our first dose. As long as appointments are required and you have to fight to get a spot at 9am it is going to be difficult to get hesitent people to sign up. I think hesitency will go down dramatically when you can just walk in without an appointment and get it.<p>2. I really don&#x27;t understand why Public Health officials keep downplaying the vaccines. They are still talking about everyone masking for months, limited gatherings, no vacations, etc. Why is it always doom and gloom? There is no evidence to support this level of paranoia and the messaging should be the exact opposite. These vaccines are scientific miracles. Get the vaccine and go out and have fun again!<p>3. The worst thing we can do at this point is to start shaming people for being hesitant. I don&#x27;t think it has started just yet but I can see it bubbling in certain circles. I was just in a work meeting where we were talking about vaccines and everyone on the call was on board BUT some people only wanted the JandJ one because it used older tech and they didn&#x27;t want to try the new mRNA ones. This was with a group of all college educated software developers...<p>There is no evidence at all to support this form of hesitancy and yet there it is. Are they Anti-vax? Kind of, but would it have helped matters to argue that they were wrong and that they were helping kill their neighbors by only wanting one of the vaccines? No, let them have their hesitancy, continue vaccinating, and in 6 months when hundreds of thousands of people have it and nothing bad happens they will quietly go get it done.<p>We know the vaccines work. Just make them widely available and the proof will be in the results.

Friends, tell me how I should be more positive or community minded in thinking about this.<p>Because right now, I say -- &quot;anyone who doesn&#x27;t want a vaccine, well you live with the consequences and if you can&#x27;t come to rational understanding that it&#x27;s your own life being saved, then I shed no tears over your choice&quot;.<p>People who do it out of religious (or Republican) dogma, I&#x27;m not sympathetic. People who believe in conspiracy theories, I&#x27;m not sympathetic. People who have some &quot;cultural history&quot; skeptical of government vaccines, well you have to learn to get over that, one way or another. I&#x27;m not that sympathetic. What&#x27;s the likelihood that the entire US is being subjected to a racially based cruel experiment?<p>You don&#x27;t want life saving vaccine, produced from the effort and focus of an entire nation, to bring us out of the worst crisis in a generation? Well, I don&#x27;t mind if there are fewer of you.<p>Aside from the issue where people who are not vaccinated affect those who cannot get vaccinated, it&#x27;s your own life you&#x27;re gambling with. Go right ahead.<p>Change my mind please?

You can see the same trends emerging on the maps on the NYT vaccine page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;interactive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;us&#x2F;covid-19-vaccine-doses.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;interactive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;us&#x2F;covid-19-vaccine...</a><p>If you scroll to the map with state-level data, you can see it has started to resemble the electoral college map. Having checked it out nearly everyday for months now, that resemblance is only growing stronger as time goes on.<p>At a certain point, there may need to be some designation given to certain states or counties - something like a travel advisory - so people know if an area has or is likely to have a COVID outbreak due to low vaccination levels.