This is what’s going to convince 95% of the skeptics out there: hearing from their friends, neighbors, and family members who got the vaccines that they’re no big deal. Given the choice between a sore arm, fever, and/or headache and a disease with a 5% chance of putting you in the hospital and a 0.65% chance of killing you (across the entire population), it’s a pretty easy choice.
There will be a small number of people who will never get vaccinated (probably under 1-2%). The other 98-99% will be happy to put this all behind us.
While I don't know what the accurate number is, I think 1-2% is way too low. I know many who will not get the vaccine.
I’m healthy, in my early 50s. I normally wouldn’t be in a hurry to try a new vaccine, but my mother-in-law has cancer, on immunosuppressants.
She needs my wife’s and my help for everyday things, so for that reason, we are both trying to “jump the queue” to get a jab.
About 40% of the American public will likely decline the vaccine. Almost everyone I know says no way. I said not in a million years. You don’t need an experimental vaccine for a virus hardly anyone dies from. If you want it take it at your own peril. Don’t try to coerce others into it.