Provided by Dow Jones Apr 19, 2021 5:29 AM UTC In one recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll (link), taken before the J&J vaccination pause, 13% of Americans said they would definitely not get a vaccine, and 7% said they would get one only if required. A study released this week by the University of Oxford said people are 8 to 19 times more likely to develop blood clots from COVID-19 than one of the Pfzier-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines. So why are people spooked by the tiny numbers of those who did develop clots? As humans, we are not very good at translating risk into action, Pavia said. If I have the chance of being one of the 500,000 who die of COVID, how do I balance that with the one person who had a fatal side effect, if it s a side effect at all? It s the same perceptual problem when we blindly drive to the airport texting, yet we worry about the airplane.
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