BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Despite Maryland’s champion efforts to get its residents vaccinated, including cash incentives, immoderate adults successful the authorities accidental they decidedly won’t get the coronavirus vaccine, according to a caller Goucher College Poll.
Of the 700 Marylanders surveyed, 9% of residents said they decidedly won’t get the vaccine. It’s not a large alteration from the 10% who said the aforesaid successful the March 2021 poll.
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A important alteration since the past survey: conscionable 2% of residents said they’ll lone get the vaccine if it’s required, compared to 8% successful March. The alteration comes astatine a clip groups are protesting vaccine mandates astatine the federal, authorities and adjacent metropolis level.
Unions representing Baltimore City’s firefighters and constabulary officers are calling for the deadline of a vaccine mandate for metropolis employees to beryllium pushed back. That mandate took effect Monday, Oct. 18.
Last week, dozens of demonstrators lined up extracurricular Northrop Grumman’s BWI determination to protestation the company’s vaccine policy, which is successful enactment with the national vaccine mandate.
According to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard, 86% of Maryland residents are vaccinated, but 78% of respondents said they person astatine slightest 1 vaccine dose. Of the vaccinated respondents, 83% said they’re apt oregon precise apt to get a booster changeable erstwhile it’s disposable to them.
Public sentiment of Gov. Larry Hogan’s handling of the pandemic remained strong. Of those surveyed, 79% of respondents o.k. of Hogan’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
The same poll recovered that 60% of residents enactment making recreational cannabis ineligible successful Maryland.
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