Vaccine Hesitancy Increases Among Gen Z Adults
April 22, 2021 Hesitancy around COVID-19 vaccination appears to be increasing among Generation Z those born between 1997 and 2012 in recent months.
Public health officials are concerned about vaccine hesitancy in this age group as COVID-19 cases have spiked among young adults.
In a NBCLX/Morning Consult poll conducted in March, 26% of Gen Z respondents said they won’t get vaccinated, and 19% said they aren’t sure whether they will get inoculated. In a similar NBCLX/Morning Consult poll conducted in March 2020, 5% of Gen Z respondents said they wouldn’t get vaccinated.
In a recent STAT-Harris Poll, about 21% of Gen Z respondents said they won’t get vaccinated, and 34% said they would “wait awhile and see” before getting a vaccine.
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A new study shows that the proportion of gun violence relative to other forms of violence in TV dramas increased from 2000 to 2018, with statistical parallels to trends in actual gun homicides among U.S. youths. Patrick E. Jamieson and Daniel Romer of the University of Pennsylvania s Annenberg Public Policy Center present these findings in the open-access journal
PLOS ONE on March 17, 2021.
Firearm injuries and deaths are a major public health concern in the U.S. A long-standing hypothesis suggests that increases in gun violence in popular media result in increases real-life gun violence among youths. However, homicide rates among youths have declined in recent decades, challenging this view.
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