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I'm just spitballin' here but maybe correlation isn't causation and maybe there are parts of the country with historically low access to healthcare that are also economically depressed and maybe people with concerns (legitimate or not) just need access to accurate information from someone they...

Vaccine availability isn't the same thing as having access to it.

There's an increased possibility of a diabetes diagnosis following coronavirus infection and the reasons for it aren't entirely clear just yet. https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2021/may/09/researchers-tie-covid-survivors-rise-in-diabetes/

It will give confidence to people who have existing confidence in the experts or know how medical countermeasures are evaluated and implemented, but it will decrease confidence among those who don't or aren't sure. This is one of the reasons why I keep coming back to media narratives. Maybe give...

I don't think that anything you've said sounds unreasonable for that time frame, and your experience is probably more typical than not. Some people just need more confidence-building measures than others. Social pressure can be a double-edged sword.

How long did it take you to get more information and get to your comfort level, to when you got your first dose?

Interesting example. A family member was a computer systems analyst checking for glitches in fighter jets. Another was a pilot. And another wants to maybe work for NASA. ETA: I guess my only point here is that the learning curve is steeper for some people than others.

People don't fit neatly into boxes. Reasons to avoid taking a vaccine do, and present themselves routinely as part of outbreak response. There is a difference.

It's a reasonable expectation based on the Israel case, although offhand I think their population skews older than the US. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01337-2/figures/2

I read the study this morning, and the charts are helpful in understanding the distribution over time. The narrative about lagging demand, which is just a snapshot, is highly misleading, in terms of how it's expected to actually play out...

I'm aware of what has been going on, but it's time to look forward now. Behavioral science says that there's something that will probably convince them. It depends on their reasons, beliefs and attitudes that can overlap and interact in various ways, whether it's social or economic. If it's a...

I know they have. It took my father, who has underlying health conditions, about a month or so to go and do it. Vaccinated people are going to start having social occasions and gatherings with each other, and there will be fear of missing out. Graduations, birthdays, holidays, etc. That creates...

Patience. In the end, most people can be reasoned with and are not going to spite their family and friends, and local community.

Some of us don't have to guess. This is a bogus comparison to the coronavirus vaccine because the manner in which the flu vaccine is manufactured every year is an entirely different beast.

Yes, really. It falls into the socio-psychological and behavioral category for vaccine acceptance. They might not care about the risk of transmission for someone they don't know, but they will care about the risk it poses to family and friends with underlying health conditions, for example.

Those people are going to get dragged kicking and screaming by their family, friends, and/or employer, across the 'fully vaccinated' line.

Well, this is interesting.

Pfizer and Moderna are saying that they have the six-month data. Source: https://www.10news.com/news/coronavirus/in-depth-how-full-fda-approval-would-impact-vaccine-mandates-competition (They probably have press releases on it but I'm too lazy to look it up.)

This is an accurate description of what public health experts are actually saying....because it's already happening. We're in the transitional phase from response to recovery.

I thought there were reports of CMs getting spit on and physical confrontations.