{"id":116478,"date":"2021-03-07T10:18:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T02:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116478"},"modified":"2021-03-07T10:18:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T02:18:22","slug":"covid-19-growing-confidence-in-us-in-vaccine-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116478","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Growing confidence in US in vaccine &#8211; survey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Growing-confidence-in-US-in-Covid-vaccine.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Growing-confidence-in-US-in-Covid-vaccine.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, March 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A growing number of Americans plan to get vaccinated against Covid-19 with confidence increasing particularly among African Americans, according to a Pew Research Center survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sixty-nine percent of the adults polled last month by Pew said they have<br>already been vaccinated or plan to get dosed, up from 60 percent who said<br>they planned to get vaccinated in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 69 percent, 19 percent said they had already received at least one<br>dose of Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sixty-one percent of the African-Americans surveyed said they planned to<br>get vaccinated, up sharply from 42 percent who said they would in November, Pew said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The African-American population has been particularly hard hit by the<br>coronavirus pandemic which has killed more than 520,000 people in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democrats are 27 percentage points more likely than Republicans \u2014 83<br>percent to 56 percent \u2014 to say they plan to get vaccinated or have already<br>been vaccinated, Pew said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two-thirds of those surveyed said they know someone who has been<br>hospitalized for Covid-19 or someone who has died of the disease, a figure<br>which rises to 78 percent among Black Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forty-nine percent of Black adults consider the coronavirus a major threat<br>to their personal health compared with 26 percent of white adults, Pew said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of reasons were cited by the 30 percent of adults who said they<br>did not plan to get vaccinated. Among them were concerns about side effects and a sense the vaccines were developed and tested too quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pew survey of 10,000 people was conducted Feb 16-21, before the<br>approval by US authorities of the latest vaccine from Johnson &amp; Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andy Slavitt, White House senior advisor for COVID-19 response, said <br>that more than 82 million Covid shots have been administered in the United<br>States \u2014 \u201cmore than any country in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNearly 55 percent of people aged 65 or older have received at least one<br>shot,\u201d Slavitt said. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, March 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A growing number of Americans plan to get vaccinated against Covid-19 with confidence increasing particularly among African Americans, according to a Pew Research Center survey. Sixty-nine percent of the adults polled last month by Pew said they havealready been vaccinated or plan to get dosed, up from 60 percent who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":116479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116478"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}