In December 2020, the great vaccination operation against Covid 19 began all over Europe. After 10 months, more than 70% of the European population received the second dose. And according to recent studies, almost half of Europeans are in favor of compulsory vaccination. But be careful, because there are situations in which mistrust is still high.
The start
In December last year, with the EU vaccines strategy, the European Union allocated 2.7 billion to start mass vaccination in member countries. Immediately after he granted authorization for AstraZeneca, BioNTech and Pfizer and Moderna vaccines (and then Johnson & Johnson a few months later), all European states started vaccinating. At the end of September 2021, 72.6% of adults had completed the vaccination cycle.
The survey
In May Eurobameter carried out a survey on citizens' opinions about the vaccine and the strategy used in the campaign at national and EU level: most of the Europeans who participated said they were in favor of accepting the anti-Covid vaccine, believing (in 76% of cases) that the benefits are greater than the risks.
A survey that a few days ago was taken up by the Openpolis Foundation which then carried out an interesting study on this topic. "According to the data collected by the Eurobarometer, 69% of the EU population was part of the so-called high vaccine acceptance category, that is the set of those who have already been vaccinated and those who want to get vaccinated as soon as possible - the experts point out - The grade furthermore, it does not show differences in terms of gender, but is slightly influenced by age (among citizens over 55, 6% refuse the vaccine, against 13% between 25 and 39 years) and, to some extent, from the employment situation. The acceptance rate falls from 69% among the employed to 59% among the unemployed. There is also a gap between urban and rural inhabitants. Of the former, only 8% declare that they do not want to be vaccinated, against 13% of the latter ».
Obviously, then, those who willingly accept the anti Covid vaccine are those who have previously been vaccinated against other diseases, in both childhood or adulthood. In the group of the most inclined to get vaccinated, 92% had been vaccinated in the past, a figure that drops to 70% among those who instead declare that they do not want to be vaccinated against Covid.
