Millions of Americans will refuse to get a COVID-19 shot when the vaccine becomes available

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May 9, 2020, 3:05:54 PM5/9/20
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Of course, the Seattle Times presents this good news as calamitous, 
since "our free press" inhabits—and maintains—the Bizarro world of
corporate "medicine," and the political establishment owned by it.

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Millions of Americans will refuse to get a coronavirus vaccine when it becomes available, polls say

May 6, 2020 at 10:04 am Updated May 6, 2020 at 11:03 am

Scientists across the globe are working hard to develop a COVID-19 vaccine as worldwide deaths from the coronavirus illness push toward 300,000.

But there’s no guarantee these vaccine efforts will succeed — and millions of Americans seem to be fine with that.

The results from a new set of surveys by Morning Consult found that 14 percent of American adults would not get a COVID-19 vaccine if one were available and 22 percent aren’t sure if they would. In a separate recent survey, currently undergoing peer review, political scientists Kristin Lunz Trujillo and Matt Motta found that 23% of U.S. respondents said they would not get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Anti-vaccine activists have participated in many of the protests across the U.S. against governors’ stay-at-home orders, which are meant to slow the coronavirus pandemic. Anti-vaccine leaders tend to argue that fear of COVID-19 is being manufactured by corrupt governments and corporations. Various false claims are being spread, such as “the idea that a vaccine has existed for years and has been kept from public consumption,” write Trujillo and Motta.

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