More than 60 percent of Texans say they ll get the coronavirus vaccine, survey reveals
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Mindy Warren, employee health manager, right, prepares a dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination for Robert Luckey, COVID ICU nurse, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Houston. A group of front line medical workers at Memorial Hermann Hospital were some of the first to receive the recently approved vaccine. The Pfizer vaccine was almost 95 percent effective at preventing patients from contracting COVID-19 and caused no major side effects in a trial of nearly 44,000 people.Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
With the coronavirus vaccine arriving in several Texas cities, health care workers are already getting vaccinated.
More Texans say they re likely to get COVID-19 vaccine, study finds
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Share: The biggest takeaway for me is good news, and that is that the hesitancy has declined since September, President and CEO of Episcopal Health Foundation Elena Marks said. We asked the same set of questions earlier in the year before the COVID vaccine was on the horizon, and people were more hesitant.
The study found that 63% of Texans are likely to get the vaccine, which is an increase from 59% in September.
There s also fewer people saying it s very unlikely they will get the vaccine.
In December, 20% of Texans said they were very unlikely to get the vaccine, an improvement from the 28% in September.
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