The Most Vaccine-Hesitant Group of All? PhDs
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And yet, vaccine hesistancy and being a Trump voter are nevertheless tied to each other, all year. [0] And the partisan divide has grown over time. [1]
> So for whatever reason someone may not want the vaccine its surely has nothing to do with Trump.
It may not have a lot to do with Trump directly, and more to do with that attachment to a particular partisan media bubble, which also is the same one associated with voting for Trump. But there us a real and strong relationship, even if it isn’t simple, direct “Support for Trump leads to vaccine hesitancy” (which I’ve never seen claimed, anyway.)
[0] see, among others, https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/07/28/here-ar... https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/567549-poll-nearly-thi... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/17/us/vaccine-he...
[1] https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/the-red-blue-divide-in-covi...
Assuming a majority of vaccine hesitant people is in such an radical media bubble is kind strange and seems to be just an attempt to "simplify to dismiss" the problem.