Although a majority of the elderly (65.5 percent) would like to have themselves vaccinated as soon as a vaccine against the coronavirus is available, there is also a lot of doubt. More than a quarter (27.2 percent) of the elderly indicated that they would not be vaccinated immediately, 7.3 percent did not know yet. This is the result of a survey among 521 members of the senior panel of the National Elderly Fund.
According to the study, men are more likely to take a vaccine than women (70.4 percent versus 62.1 percent, respectively). People at an older age also prefer to be vaccinated. This increases from 44.9 percent among people younger than 65 years to 75 percent among people over 85. 72.3 percent of people who see themselves as a risk group want to be vaccinated. That also means that more than a quarter still have doubts about this.
Soon there will not immediately be enough vaccines to distribute among all Dutch people. The National Elderly Fund considers it important that careful consideration is given to which people and population groups are the first to have access to the vaccine. “Older people run greater health risks, we hope that a large proportion of the first vaccines will be made available to them,” says Corina Gielbert, director of the National Elderly Fund.
By: ANP
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