How Appeals to Faith Can Increase Vaccination

Here we go again. Mask mandates. Tracking case counts. Wondering about whether schools will be open. Worrying about whether a stray sniffle is COVID-19 or a cold. It was supposed to be over by now. And yet here we are. But there is a ray of light in the doomsday sky. Our recent PRRI/IFYC Religion and the Vaccine Survey found clear progress in vaccine uptake, even among many hesitant groups, between the first wave of the survey in March and the second wave in June. Vaccine acceptance is up (from 58% to 71%), and vaccine hesitancy has been cut in half (from 28% to 15%). Today, only 13% are vaccine refusers.