People in poor nations more likely to accept COVID vaccines, survey findsEighty percent of survey respondents in 10 developing countries indicated a willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine, compared with 65% in the United States and 30% in Russia, according to a study published late last week in Nature Medicine.Researchers from the University of Cape Town in South Africa analyzed data from surveys deployed from June 2020 to January 2021 from 15 studies conducted in Africa, Latin America, Russia, South Asia, and the United States.
More than 20,000 people responded to the survey.Seven studies were carried out in the low-income countries of Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Uganda, five were conducted in countries with