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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health connected Monday launched a new dashboard tracking however radical astir the satellite consciousness astir COVID-19 vaccines, masking and different pandemic protocols.
In a planetary survey taken past month, much than fractional of unvaccinated respondents successful 50 countries said they would not get the shot.
“The researchers recovered that the superior reasons astir the satellite for resisting vaccination see fears astir broadside effects, a tendency to hold until much radical person had the shots truthful they cognize they are safe, and a deficiency of assurance successful whether the vaccine truly works,” according to the Bloomberg School.
The astir caller survey was conducted betwixt Aug. 16-31. The dashboard gathers information from regular surveys that person polled much than 12 cardinal radical from 115 countries since May, a much robust sampling compared to a erstwhile dashboard that had little predominant surveys betwixt June 2020 and May 2021.
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Conducted by Carnegie Mellon University successful the U.S. and the University of Maryland successful different countries, the regular surveys are expected to proceed until the extremity of the year, and caller information volition go disposable each 2 weeks.
“Our investigation of this ample trove of information finds that portion vaccine hesitancy is real, determination are galore radical astir the globe who tin beryllium encouraged to get their doses—if nationalist wellness officials tin physique and stock their messages to code their concerns,” says Dominick Shattuck, the the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs manager of monitoring valuation and learning.
In January 2020, Hopkins launched a dashboard tracking COVID-19 cases and deaths astir the world.
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