Vaccine hesitancy strongly correlates with COVID-19 deaths underreporting
Sobieszek, A.; Lipniacka, M.; Lipniacki, T.
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Vaccine acceptance is a key factor in achieving high immunization coverage and reducing the death toll of COVID-19 pandemic. Analyzing data from Europe and Americas we demonstrated that vaccine hesitancy strongly correlates with underreporting of COVID-19 deaths and cases. This correlation cannot be explained by the differences in economic indexes: GDP and Gini coefficient (measure of income inequalities). There is no correlation of vaccination percentage and Gini coefficient and the correlation with GDP is decreasing in time. The most striking is the comparison of Eastern European and South American countries; the latter group of countries shows significantly higher vaccination percentage while having a lower or comparable GDP and higher Gini coefficient. The analysis suggests that timely and reliable information about the COVID-19 cases and the associated deaths plays a key role in achieving population-wide vaccine acceptance.
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