However, adults under 35 were more likely than older adults to indicate a distrust for the vaccines’ efficacy, as well as for the companies making the vaccines. Millennials and Gen Z adults were also nearly twice as likely as adults over 35 to say they didn’t need the vaccine because “the risk to me of contracting COVID-19 was small.”
The growing hesitancy among young adults to get a coronavirus vaccine was first identified by NBCLX and Morning Consult in March.
At the time, Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, Vice Chair of the Global Health Committee at the Infectious Diseases Society of America, told NBCLX that too many young adults seem to believe a “misnomer” that they are safe from the debilitating effects of COVID-19.
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