Vaccine sceptics: With vaccines seemingly just around the corner which countries first need to convince their populations they are safe?

Vaccine sceptics: With vaccines seemingly just around the corner which countries first need to convince their populations they are safe?

12/3/20 7:00PM

The vaccines are coming, but will people take them? According to data from Ipsos, the intentions of people across many countries to get a COVID-19 vaccine, if one were available, have been mostly falling since the summer.

‍Je suis sceptique

‍The French population is among the most sceptical. Only 54% of those polled in France totally agree that they would get a COVID-19 vaccine. Scepticism of vaccines in France is undoubtedly influenced by what happened in 2009, when France ordered millions of Euros worth of flu vaccinations, only for many of them to be wasted, as well as the "yellow vest" anti-establishment movement of 2018 that has fueled general government scepticism ever since.

In the US, views on vaccines aren't much more favourable with 64% of Americans totally confident that they would get a vaccine, down from 67% in August. That number hopefully might have gone up in the last week or so as former US presidents, Obama, Clinton & Bush, all agreed to have their COVID-19 vaccinations publicly televised.

With that we're going to predict the next trend of 2021... celebrities getting vaccines publicly or broadcasting them on social media.

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