One in six people who have not been vaccinated are still waiting for an invitation for the corona vaccine. That has no longer been necessary since June of this year, but that has apparently not been clear to everyone, according to the researchers of the Lifelines Corona study. The Lifelines Corona study is an ongoing population study among the Northern Dutch and is conducted among more than 23,000 people. The University Medical Center Groningen and the University of Groningen, among others, started it at the start of the pandemic.
94 percent of the participants in the Lifelines Corona study have been vaccinated. 7 percent of the unvaccinated think that the injections cost money, but the vaccination is free. With good information, there is an opportunity for the government to vaccinate a large group of people, the researchers say, because both those who are still waiting for an invitation and those who thought it would cost money want to be vaccinated.
Of those who have not been vaccinated, 10 percent have little or no concern about the severity of a corona infection. Nearly half (44 percent) think the vaccine is harmful to health. A quarter (23 percent) are afraid of unknown side effects and 4 percent have doubts about the effectiveness of the vaccine. Less than one percent of the unvaccinated people surveyed have an allergy or don’t get vaccinated for religious reasons.
22 percent of pregnant women are not vaccinated, the study shows, although a corona infection can be serious among pregnant women.
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