A new survey has revealed that almost all parents can be convinced to vaccinate their children against the COVID-19 virus. When the pandemic started, every family was stopped in their tracks, and life changed almost instantly. For the last 16 months, the world has been waiting to go back to normal, and hope seems to be here in the shape of a vaccine. With vaccine rates rising across the country, and the world, countries are slowly starting to open back up. While some experts believe that herd immunity cannot be reached until children are vaccinated, there are a lot of parents out there who are hesitant to vaccinate their children.
There is currently a vaccine available for children over the age of 12, but the trials are not yet completed for children under 12. The latest update shows that this vaccine should be here by mid-winter, so there may be some time to convince parents who are refusing to vaccinate their children, according to WATE.
This claim is based on a survey that was done by Sykes, and the full details can be read here. The survey included more than 1,700 parents in the US who had children under the age of 17 years old.
The survey showed that as of right now, 50% of parents feel that the vaccine is effective against the virus, but there were still more than half who were reluctant to give their children the vaccine. However, 90% of those in the survey said that they could be convinced to have their children take the vaccine. The survey even highlighted what some of the top concerns were for the parents in the survey.
- The majority (51.5%) said that they were concerned about the impact the vaccine could have on puberty
- Another 50.8% said that they were worried about long-term health effects
- 48% had concerns that they were making the wrong decision for their child
A large number of parents, 30.3%, stated that they had nervousness over information that they had read online, which is not unexpected. The internet is a great tool for information, but the saying, “don’t believe everything you read online” is incredibly true. Moms should be discussing this with the medical team in her c child’s life. Another reason why parents may be able to be persuaded is that 64.2% of the parents who said they would not be vaccinating their children said that they feel, at least, a little guilty about it. Which may mean they are in the questioning period of a decision.