Vaccine polls update 6/13/21

VACCINE INCENTIVES
Incentives to get vaccinated like prizes or lotteries might move the needle a little, so to speak. But most who won’t get the vaccine say they don’t see incentives changing their minds. pic.twitter.com/qplv0sfitW
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) June 13, 2021

Americans are widely comfortable gathering with friends at parties, taking road trips, and going to restaurants, and more mixed about places that draw larger crowds and plane flights.

That comfort level is certainly up from this spring, before most were vaccinated. pic.twitter.com/CeqNfA5SWO
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) June 13, 2021

32% say they either don’t want to get a shot or are taking a wait-and-see attitude. This anti-vaccine prejudice is frustrating, because if anything should restore trust in govt, it is the rapid development and deployment of astonishingly effective vaccines.https://t.co/fpkQqyW0V5
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) June 8, 2021

Two-thirds of voters (67%) say they are worried that unvaccinated people will go mask-free too after the CDC said vaccinated Americans could stop wearing masks via new Fox News poll.
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) May 28, 2021

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The partisan vaccination divide, per new The Economist/YouGov polling:

Among Biden voters:
Fully vaccinated 76%
Partially 10%
Plan to get 7%
Won’t get vaxxed 2%
Not sure 4%

Trump voters:
Fully vaccinated 54%
Partially 6%
Plan to get 3%
Won’t get vaxxed 26%
Not sure 12%
— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) May 26, 2021

Great tweet from the Baltimore City Health Department

It is inadvisable to do this to the vaccine. https://t.co/wUimxfWbut
— B'more City Health (@BMore_Healthy) May 4, 2021

Trump administration CDC downplayed pandemic

Trump’s bad response to the virus has caused thousands of needless deaths.

A review of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Covid-19 guidance has found that some of the agency's guidance during the Trump administration was not grounded in science or free from undue influence https://t.co/QvoSGrCtmg
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 15, 2021

SCOOP: CDC has completed its review of covid-19 guidance and removed several controversial ones authored under Trump administration that downplayed severity of pandemic. My story. https://t.co/48Ex7uCjQw
— LenaSun (@bylenasun) March 15, 2021

States with Republican governors had highest Covid incidence and death rates

NEW: States with Republican governors had highest Covid incidence and death rates, study finds https://t.co/hjES73t801
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) March 11, 2021

Virus poll update 3/5/21

Republicans and Democrats remain far apart in their assessments of the nature of the public health threat posed by the coronavirus. https://t.co/aiWZOcAbjx pic.twitter.com/46gb0LijDx
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) March 5, 2021

This USC tracking poll is a useful resource for tracking how much people are modifying their behavior as a result of COVID. The orange line, for instance, shows how many people say they're staying at home except for essential activities; currently ~45-50%.https://t.co/BT47WuNxZ4 pic.twitter.com/XTWcVlkc3C
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) February 7, 2021

Saturday Night Live’s vaccine game show

Saturday Night Live (2/27/21) opened with a skit of a game show where participants try to get the COVID-19 vaccine. This is not the first satirical game show about diseases. The Firesign Theatre had a comedy routine on their 1968 album Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him called :”Beat the Reaper”. Participants in the game show had to guess what disease they had in order to get the antidote.

Terry Southern‘s 1958 novel Flash and Filigree included a game show called “What’s My Disease?”. My copy is packed up but here are links to descriptions. The show is also mentioned in the film The Loved One (1966) which was co-written by Southern. The one on Southern’s archives states that he wrote a screenplay based on Nathanael West’s A Cool Million. I would love to see a film of that. I think it would be best as a Tim Burton-style animated film.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/03/18/the-genius-of-terry-southern/

COVID-19 vaccine comparison table from Business Insider

I have had one shot of the Pfizer vaccine. Side effects were minor – just some soreness where the shot was injected.

COVID vaccines compared in 1 table: Effectiveness, side effects, more (businessinsider.com)

The Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium in Philadelphia

These doctors are doing a great job getting people vaccinated in Philadelphia. I donated to them and encourage you to support them, too.

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At Philadelphia's first walk-up vaccination clinic, the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium vaccinated 4,000 people in 24 hours. The daily average of vaccinations in February from all Philadelphia providers is 3,300. https://t.co/lHgRGPCttu
— John Duchneskie (@jduchneskie) February 20, 2021

Look at this line. “Vaccine hesitancy” is clearly not the problem. Accessibility is. The Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium are trusted messengers embedded in the community. Philly, give them more funding. https://t.co/BIYwk3UVSG
— uché blackstock, md (@uche_blackstock) February 20, 2021

Home

One woman came to get vaccinated by the Black Doctors Consortium the same night her mother died from COVID. "We put a circle around her, and we talked to her, and we prayed with her, and we gave her the vaccine." https://t.co/7WAUmIdrdn
— Billy Penn (@billy_penn) February 28, 2021

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Virus and vaccine misinformation

This crisis is bad enough without lies.

We're still debunking misinformation about COVID-19. Why? Because hoaxes travel fast, and many claims about the pandemic need clarification. https://t.co/LqLfuMWMvU pic.twitter.com/t2QCMLJPVb
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) February 20, 2021

I wrote about how vaccine misinformation mixes with extreme faith online. It’s a piece of the misinfo story that’s often overlooked, but one that many families and churches are struggling with right now. https://t.co/fBy18RXdXR
— Dr. Lizza “kiddo” Dwoskin (@lizzadwoskin) February 16, 2021

This is from project I did last few months on vaccine willingness and link to misinfo. Data shows it is more a mix of conspiracy theories, but interestingly, which ones resonate most differ across subgroups. So for some it is a cross with Qanon, others its nefarious corporate etc
— Peter W. Singer (@peterwsinger) February 19, 2021

Facebook ramps up effort to curb COVID-19 vaccines misinfo https://t.co/Y2kdIGTkxt pic.twitter.com/3tVTaa4k46
— Prosyscom (@prosyscom_it) February 13, 2021

There's a new rule of no antivax posts of any kind. Covid misinfo has always been a strike but it's only now they're acting on the antivax problem they helped bring to the world.https://t.co/0g78oeUPEr
— celerysorbet (@CelerySorbet) February 17, 2021

This study suggests recent exposure to online misinfo about the COVID-19 vaccine in the UK and US could reduce intent to vaccinate by ~6 percentage pointshttps://t.co/Oqki1t2Ary
— Alexios (@Mantzarlis) February 17, 2021

Lots of misinfo circulating wrongly suggesting Covid vaccine can harm fertility- but this is completely baseless https://t.co/I9aTre7GTL
— Rachel Schraer (@rachelschraer) February 13, 2021

In Rochester at Mayo Clinic speaking out against vaccine misinformation online. Check out any reputable health website (including Mayo’s and CDC) to get the truth.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Mayo Clinic unite against online vaccine 'infodemic' | Post Bulletin https://t.co/CUvyrwHh1c
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) February 18, 2021

At first, China worked to contain COVID conspiracy theories. But after weeks of fiery rhetoric from President Trump and top Republicans, Beijing fought back.

China launched what may be its first truly global digital disinfo campaign. pic.twitter.com/sMyp6rkroO
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 16, 2021

DISINFO WARS: @TomPerez, @MariaTeresa & @GoAngelo team up to create Latino Anti-Disinformation Lab. First target: COVID-19. Second target: Mid-term elections. Read about the $22 million project, first reported here–>https://t.co/A2tjASqn6W
— Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc) February 17, 2021

"Some GOP state lawmakers are using their platform to promote false information about the virus, the steps needed to limit its spread and the vaccines that will pull the nation out of the pandemic…" https://t.co/aWYH808QYV
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) February 28, 2021

Virus news 2/14/21

COVID-19 could become a seasonal illness like the flu, experts say https://t.co/yNUJD7fmYY pic.twitter.com/1TcjCKwmyO
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) February 12, 2021

Even with Trump gone, there's an effort to cast covid coverage as partisan, reinforcing a bad existing pattern.https://t.co/aY7bWDLQvi
— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 10, 2021

Yes, you do actually need fresh air. https://t.co/1eoqdR1SR0
— Men's Health Mag (@MensHealthMag) February 9, 2021

Having COVID-19 may not protect against getting infected again with some of the new variants, new research suggests. Scientists still think reinfections are fairly rare and usually less serious than initial ones. https://t.co/nIcCAc6EhD
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 8, 2021

That routine list of COVID symptom questions is apparently far from comprehensive. COVID tongue? The virus can come at you in a lot of ways. https://t.co/9FvTKunxwe
— John Bacon (@realjohnbacon) February 7, 2021