{"id":1478,"date":"2020-10-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/2020\/10\/06\/poll-only-half-of-americans-would-try-to-get-covid-19-vaccine\/"},"modified":"2020-10-07T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T16:10:08","slug":"poll-only-half-of-americans-would-try-to-get-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/2020\/10\/06\/poll-only-half-of-americans-would-try-to-get-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Only Half of Americans Would Try to Get COVID-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>If enough people in the U.S. pass on vaccine, the nation may not be able to achieve herd immunity<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Oct. 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Only 51 percent of Americans would get a COVID-19 vaccine, while 45 percent would not even try, a new poll shows.<\/p>\n<p>About 4 percent of respondents had no opinion, according to the <i>CNN<\/i> poll that was released on Monday and asked participants if they would try to get a vaccine that was widely available at low cost.<\/p>\n<p>This is the lowest percentage of people so far in <i>CNN<\/i> polling to say they would try to get a vaccine. The rates were 66 percent in May and 56 percent in August. The percentage of people who said they would not try to get a vaccine rose from 33 percent in May and 40 percent in August.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was conducted by SSRS, an independent research company, and consisted of telephone interviews with a random national sample of 1,205 adults. Health experts say that if enough people in the United States do not get a COVID-19 vaccine, the nation may not be able to achieve herd immunity against the virus, <i>CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/05\/health\/covid-19-vaccine-willingness-cnn-poll-wellness\/index.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>CNN<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If enough people in the U.S. pass on vaccine, the nation may not be able to achieve herd immunity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[100,98],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}