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Who are Israel's COVID-19 anti-vaxxers? New survey
[JPost] - Are Israelis against vaccination or are there other reasons that some one million eligible individuals have not turned out to get the jab? A new survey conducted by Prof. Michal Grinstein-Weiss attempts to answer this question. The survey, which was taken on August 11 and 12, asked 925 individuals over age 18 whether they had been vaccinated or not. If not, the survey asked them why. Some 11% of respondents said they had not been inoculated, 75% of which said they do not plan to do so. When broken down by religion and level of religion, the majority of the unvaccinated are either haredi (ultra-Orthodox) or Arab. Some 24% of haredim and some 21% of Arabs are unvaccinated, versus 6% of secular people, 11% of traditional people and 8% of religious or Religious Zionist respondents. ...Some one-third of the people who said they did not vaccinate — 54% of haredim and 38% of Arabs — said it was because they already contracted the virus in a previous wave and therefore felt that they were protected. "It is important to understand this when messaging about vaccination to these populations," Grinstein-Weiss said. "This one-third is not really anti-vaccination. So, it just needs to be explained to them why they need to vaccinate even if they have already been sick." To wit: immunity to coronaviruses is short lasting (see comments) ...The number one reason that Israelis do not want to get vaccinated is because they still do not feel they know enough about the long-term impact of the vaccine (46%). Others said that they do not believe the vaccine is effective (40%) or that they do not think it is safe even in the short term (38%). The breakdown of basic education in modern western societys is really depressing Strikingly, despite multiple Israeli and international studies, there are still many women who are opting out of vaccination because they are afraid it will impact fertility (17%) or because they are pregnant or nursing and afraid it could harm their baby (11%). ...Israel began vaccinating pregnant women in January and stepped up its encouragement of these women getting inoculated during the third wave, when the British variant caused many women in their third trimesters to develop serious cases of the virus that required emergency delivery and treatment in the intensive care unit. Some pregnant women died from the virus then, too. Stupidity is not a crime - but it is a capital offense. Another factor that plays into whether or not people get vaccinated seems to be their friends and family networks. Some 61% of people whose friends and/or family members are not vaccinating have chosen not to vaccinate themselves. "They tend to give into peer pressure," said Yaniv Shlomo, a senior research associate at SPI, who worked with Grinstein-Weiss on the survey. "They run in cliques." An Israeli example of staunch individualism claimed by American anti-vaxxers. ...Finally, the report looked at the connection between immunization and marital status: The percentage of those not vaccinated is higher among those who are single or without children compared to those who are married or have kids — 16% unvaccinated versus 9%. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-08-14 |
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