Prioritization preferences for COVID-19 vaccination are consistent across five countries
Abstract Vaccination against COVID-19 is making progress globally, but vaccine doses remain a rare commodity in many parts of the world. New virus variants require vaccines to be updated, hampering the availability of effective vaccines. Policymakers have defined criteria to regulate who gets priori...
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| author | Simon Munzert Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz Başak Çalı Lukas F. Stoetzer Anita Gohdes Will Lowe |
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| description | Abstract Vaccination against COVID-19 is making progress globally, but vaccine doses remain a rare commodity in many parts of the world. New virus variants require vaccines to be updated, hampering the availability of effective vaccines. Policymakers have defined criteria to regulate who gets priority access to the vaccination, such as age, health complications, or those who hold system-relevant jobs. But how does the public think about vaccine allocation? To explore those preferences, we surveyed respondents in Brazil, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the United States from September to December of 2020 using ranking and forced-choice tasks. We find that public preferences are consistent with expert guidelines prioritizing health-care workers and people with medical preconditions. However, the public also considers those signing up early for vaccination and citizens of the country to be more deserving than later-comers and non-citizens. These results hold across measures, countries, and socio-demographic subgroups. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-023997f9aa76411ca72fa59b9bf18b212022-12-22T03:50:41ZengSpringer NatureHumanities & Social Sciences Communications2662-99922022-12-019111010.1057/s41599-022-01392-1Prioritization preferences for COVID-19 vaccination are consistent across five countriesSimon Munzert0Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz1Başak Çalı2Lukas F. Stoetzer3Anita Gohdes4Will Lowe5Hertie SchoolHertie SchoolHertie SchoolUniversity Witten/HerdeckeHertie SchoolHertie SchoolAbstract Vaccination against COVID-19 is making progress globally, but vaccine doses remain a rare commodity in many parts of the world. New virus variants require vaccines to be updated, hampering the availability of effective vaccines. Policymakers have defined criteria to regulate who gets priority access to the vaccination, such as age, health complications, or those who hold system-relevant jobs. But how does the public think about vaccine allocation? To explore those preferences, we surveyed respondents in Brazil, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the United States from September to December of 2020 using ranking and forced-choice tasks. We find that public preferences are consistent with expert guidelines prioritizing health-care workers and people with medical preconditions. However, the public also considers those signing up early for vaccination and citizens of the country to be more deserving than later-comers and non-citizens. These results hold across measures, countries, and socio-demographic subgroups.https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01392-1 |
| spellingShingle | Simon Munzert Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz Başak Çalı Lukas F. Stoetzer Anita Gohdes Will Lowe Prioritization preferences for COVID-19 vaccination are consistent across five countries Humanities & Social Sciences Communications |
| title | Prioritization preferences for COVID-19 vaccination are consistent across five countries |
| title_full | Prioritization preferences for COVID-19 vaccination are consistent across five countries |
| title_fullStr | Prioritization preferences for COVID-19 vaccination are consistent across five countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prioritization preferences for COVID-19 vaccination are consistent across five countries |
| title_short | Prioritization preferences for COVID-19 vaccination are consistent across five countries |
| title_sort | prioritization preferences for covid 19 vaccination are consistent across five countries |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01392-1 |
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