Vaccine public opinion

The latest on vaccine public opinion from Gallup.  Encouraging to see that overall willingness to take the vaccine is rising:

Discouraging?  This is entirely due to change in Democrats:

As for that Democratic dip, my hypothesis is it basically represent a time when Democrats feared any vaccine approved “right now” was almost surely unsafely rushed to approval to aid Trump’s re-election.  Once that fear disappeared, Democrats started to rebound to previous levels.

It will, of course, be especially interesting to track this as the vaccine actually rolls out in the months ahead.  And, who knows what policies various schools, organizations, etc., will implement, but as far as I’m concerned, anybody unwilling to take the vaccine does not need to attend NC State or Wake County Public Schools in the Fall.  

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