CBS News poll: Will parents get their younger kids vaccinated?
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For the majority of Americans still concerned about the pandemic as winter approaches, uncertainties remain, because even as cases have started to come down, more suspect the outbreak will get worse than better in the coming months. For parents of younger children, the season may bring a decision on whether to get their kids vaccinated when and if that shot is approved, and we can start to see the context of that public health question forming already.
At the moment there are many parents saying they will get their children vaccinated, but nearly as many saying they won't, with plenty of "maybes" in between. As you might expect, there's a strong connection here between this stance and whether the parent is vaccinated, or not.
These patterns, asking people about a not-yet-widely-available shot, aren't entirely unlike what we saw in early 2021 regarding adults and the vaccine. At the time, there were those eager to get it, and a lot of maybes who eventually did, but the staunch holdouts were there, and have remained.
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