Posted on 12/13/20
| News Source: JNS
As Israel prepares to begin its inoculation campaign and with the Health Ministry yet to launch a supporting PR effort, an “Israel Hayom” study finds widespread resistance to vaccination.
With Israel poised to begin rolling out COVID-19 vaccinations, a new poll indicates that just over a third of Israelis say they won’t take the shots.
According to an Israel Hayom poll, 37 percent of respondents said they will not take the vaccine, while 19 percent would neither confirm nor deny they planned to get vaccinated. Forty-four percent of respondents said they planned to get the vaccine.
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The older the respondent, the more likely they were to say they planned to be inoculated. Among respondents 65 and older, 63 percent said they would get vaccinated, while 20 percent said they would refuse the vaccine. Among those in the 50-to-64 range, 49 percent said they would take the vaccine, while 32 percent said they would not.
Among respondents aged 30 and 50, 42 percent said they would get vaccinated, while among 18- to 30-year-olds 34 percent said they would take the vaccine, while nearly half, or 48 percent, said they would refuse.
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