15 April 2021
White evangelicals are the least likely demographic to get the vaccine, the Pew Research Centre has found. Nine out of 10 atheists would definitely or probably get a vaccine or have already had one, compared to 77% of Catholics the survey of more than 10,000 adults in February 2021 found. By comparison, 45% of white evangelicals said they would definitely or probably not get the vaccine.
The New York Times reports:
The opposition is rooted in a mix of religious faith and a longstanding wariness of mainstream science, and it is fueled by broader cultural distrust of institutions and gravitation to online conspiracy theories. The sheer size of the community poses a major problem for the country’s ability to recover from a pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of half a million Americans. And evangelical ideas and instincts have a way of spreading, even internationally.
There are about 41 million white evangelical adults in the U.S. About 45 percent said in late February that they would not get vaccinated against Covid-19, making them among the least likely demographic groups to do so, according to the Pew Research Center.
“If we can’t get a significant number of white evangelicals to come around on this, the pandemic is going to last much longer than it needs to,” said Jamie Aten, founder and executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College, an evangelical institution in Illinois.
Why white US evangelicals are ‘hesitant' to get Covid vaccine. @drjamieaten speaking to me on @bbcworld about latest Pew research. https://t.co/AAgxZ1mEIQ
— Lucy Hockings (@LucyHockingsBBC) April 8, 2021
Millions of white evangelicals say they will not get vaccinated against Covid-19. Their refusal poses a major problem for the country’s ability to recover from the pandemic.
Story with @publicroad:https://t.co/5EdRQt4TZw
— NYT National News (@NYTNational) April 8, 2021
95% of Evangelical leaders in a survey said they’re open to getting a Covid vaccine.
But the number of White Evangelicals opposed remains high, one expert says, in part due to baseless conspiracy theories. That could be a problem for some parts of the US. https://t.co/q6mqiCQgn7 pic.twitter.com/PdGXCP6feS
— CNN (@CNN) April 15, 2021
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