Table 8.
The overall frequency and proportion of how respondents prefer the U.S. government prioritize funding and implement vaccinomics
| Weighted % |
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|---|---|---|---|
| More | Equal | Less | |
| If you were making decisions about how the U.S. government spends money, would vaccinomics get more, an equal amount or less money than: | |||
| Breast and prostate cancer research and development | 37.3 | 49.1 | 13.6 |
| Diabetes research and development | 34.2 | 53.4 | 12.4 |
| Heart disease research and development | 38.2 | 47.9 | 13.9 |
| If you were making decisions about how the U.S. government spends money, would vaccinomics get more, an equal amount or less money than: | |||
| Studies about safety and effectiveness of current vaccines | 39.0 | 55.4 | 5.5 |
| Buying vaccines for U.S. children whose families cannot afford them | 42.5 | 48.4 | 9.1 |
| Supporting the use of vaccines for children in poor countries | 39.8 | 48.6 | 11.7 |
| If vaccinomics could make personalized vaccine recommendations available in the next 15 years, how should this information be used for CHILDREN? a | Yes | ||
| To make vaccines safer and more effective for all children | 78.6 | ||
| To identify children most likely to have serious and dangerous reactions to vaccines | 61.0 | ||
| To identify children most likely to be more contagious | 54.0 | ||
| To identify children most likely to be more susceptible | 50.6 | ||
| Genes or DNA should NOT be used to make decisions about vaccines for children | 14.3 | ||
| None of the above | 4.4 | ||
| If vaccinomics could make personalized vaccine recommendations available in the next 15 years, how should it be used for ADULTS? a | Yes | ||
| To make vaccines safer and more effective for all adults | 72.1 | ||
| To identify adults most likely to have serious and dangerous reactions to vaccines | 61.7 | ||
| To identify adults most likely to be more contagious | 54.3 | ||
| To identify adults most likely to be more susceptible | 50.2 | ||
| Genes should NOT be used to make decisions about vaccines for adults | 13.7 | ||
| None of the above | 4.5 | ||
aMultiple responses allowed; percentages may not sum to 100%; Taylor-linearized variance estimation for weighted survey data used. Unweighted N = 1,925; Weighted N = 1,927.87.