Smart people first in line for Covid-19 vaccines, study suggests

Not a great theory. Most hesitancy wasn't anti-vaccination in general, it was specifically anti-covid vaccination.

Hesitancy can imply a greater degree of scrutiny and thought behind decisions. Those lining up first would include those who trust vaccination in general, but also those who do as they're told without question.

Smart or dumb, there's a trust factor associated with authorities demanding we take the vaccine or else.

Other reasons for not lining up first was seeing the evolving data in conflict with the message. Clearly there was a low risk of serious illness from covid for the vast majority of healthy people. Then we noticed vaccination wasn't preventing transmission as hoped or claimed. The vaccine waned more than expected; the virus mutated faster; natural immunity was more robust than claimed, and many other valid reasons for not subscribing to pfizer.

Also, what is it with the SARS2 scare mongering these last few months? I realise there is an election on the schedule in the USA and that some people there were quite satisfied with the leeway the pandemic gave them to bend and twist the rules of such events but do they really expect that strategy to work this time around? How is that going to work with the rest of the world having relegated SARS2 to the list of annoying seasonal infections which are just a part of life, no worse than most other forms of the common cold?

Or maybe dumber people wanted to get vaccinated as fast as smarter people but the process to get an appointment was just ridiculous so they gave up or procrastinated?

I was in Canada at the time. The process to get the vaccine wasn't complicated but it was convoluted and it took a couple days for it to finally give me an appointment so I almost gave up. At no point did I question the need for a vaccine. I guess that makes me dumb?

I will also note that people with poorer cognitive ability may face other barriers as well, such as logistical issues. They may have less money -- which can be a practical barrier even if the shot is free -- may have transportation issues, etc.

I was one of the top 3 students of my graduating high school class, had the highest SAT score and won a National Merit Scholarship to a prestigious school. I'm also seriously medically handicapped and it frequently impairs my cognitive ability.

So I'm both "a smart person" and also cognitively impaired.

Now if God had made the vaccine, plenty of religious people would have been first in line, and if the vaccine was rumoured to make your neck redder, then red necks would have been first in line!

As for the study, yes why wouldn't you expect the smartest people to make the blindingly obvious smart choice.

...And there was no one else in line. Heck, I had to seek out and research the Omicron booster because it wasn't in the news or any kind of notification I normally get. Most people I asked had no idea it was a thing.

I postulate that there wouldn't even be enough data where I live for such a study, because people don't seem to care about vaccines.