Table 3.
Comparison of vaccine motivators and concerns, by race–ethnicity (reference group: White).
| Outcomes | White (n = 1928) | Black (n = 116) |
Asian (n = 575) |
Hispanic/Latinx (n = 312) |
Multiple Races (n = 154) | Other Races (n = 73) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | aOR [95% CI] |
n (%) | aOR [95% CI] |
n (%) | aOR [95% CI] |
n (%) | aOR [95% CI] |
n (%) | aOR [95% CI] |
|
| Reasons to get vaccinated (motivators), % indicating most important reason | |||||||||||
| a. I want to protect myself from getting COVID | 1422 (74.2) |
86 (74.1) |
1.01 (0.65, 1.57) |
418 (73.1) |
1.22 (0.98, 1.53) |
208 (67.3) |
0.93 (0.71, 1.23) |
99 (64.3) |
0.86 (0.60, 1.24) |
50 (68.5) |
0.90 (0.53, 1.53) |
| b. I want to protect my family from getting COVID | 1522 (79.6) |
89 (77.4) |
0.81 (0.52, 1.28) |
465 (81.0) |
1.12 (0.87, 1.42) |
256 (83.1) |
1.20 (0.86, 1.67) |
127 (82.5) |
1.19 (0.77, 1.86) |
55 (75.3) |
0.79 (0.45, 1.39) |
| c. I want to protect my community from getting COVID | 1317 (69.1) |
73 (64.0) |
0.75 (0.50, 1.12) |
367 (64.2) |
0.86 (0.70, 1.06) |
211 (68.3) |
0.96 (0.73, 1.26) |
103 (66.9) |
0.90 (0.63, 1.29) |
47 (64.4) |
0.81 (0.49, 1.34) |
| d. I don’t believe life will go back to normal until most people get the vaccine | 1221 (64.0) |
68 (59.1) |
0.81 (0.55, 1.20) |
356 (62.2) |
1.05 (0.86, 1.28) |
188 (61.0) |
0.95 (0.73, 1.24) |
87 (56.5) |
0.83 (0.59, 1.16) |
43 (58.9) |
0.93 (0.56, 1.52) |
| e. I will get the COVID vaccine if my doctor recommends that I get it | 617 (32.4) |
47 (41.2) |
1.42 (0.95, 2.12) |
221 (38.6) |
1.60 (1.31, 1.97) |
109 (35.9) |
1.26 (0.96, 1.66) |
52 (33.8) |
1.30 (0.90, 1.86) |
22 (30.1) |
1.01 (0.60, 1.69) |
| f. My employer or school will require or expect me to get a vaccine | 300 (15.9) |
17 (15.3) |
0.89 (0.52, 1.52) |
130 (23.1) |
1.57 (1.23, 1.99) |
67 (22.0) |
1.33 (0.97, 1.82) |
32 (21.2) |
1.26 (0.82, 1.93) |
15 (20.8) |
1.28 (0.70, 2.35) |
| g. My family will want me to get a vaccine | 653 (34.5) |
36 (32.1) |
0.81 (0.53, 1.25) |
208 (36.6) |
1.38 (1.12, 1.70) |
106 (34.9) |
1.16 (0.88, 1.53) |
49 (32.2) |
1.13 (0.78, 1.64) |
28 (38.4) |
1.20 (0.72, 1.99) |
| Reasons to not get vaccinated (concerns), % indicating most important or moderately important reason | |||||||||||
| a. The vaccine may not stop me from getting COVID | 224 (11.8) |
31 (27.7) |
2.62 (1.67, 4.10) |
104 (18.3) |
1.68 (1.29, 2.19) |
74 (24.3) |
2.16 (1.58, 2.96) |
26 (17.2) |
1.48 (0.93, 2.35) |
12 (16.9) |
1.38 (0.71, 2.69) |
| b. I might have a bad reaction to the vaccine | 466 (24.5) |
54 (49.1) |
2.56 (1.72, 3.81) |
250 (44.0) |
2.39 (1.95, 2.93) |
132 (43.1) |
2.05 (1.57, 2.66) |
54 (35.3) |
1.49 (1.04, 2.14) |
31 (42.5) |
2.07 (1.27, 3.38) |
| c. I do not get vaccines in general | 81 (4.3) |
18 (16.2) |
3.96 (2.26, 6.94) |
49 (8.7) |
2.19 (1.50, 3.19) |
34 (11.2) |
2.56 (1.65, 3.99) |
12 (7.8) |
1.69 (0.87, 3.28) |
4 (5.6) |
1.30 (0.46, 3.67) |
| d. I do not think I will get COVID, even without getting a vaccine | 39 (2.1) |
16 (14.5) |
8.05 (4.27, 15.2) |
38 (6.7) |
3.58 (2.23, 5.75) |
21 (6.9) |
3.45 (1.94, 6.14) |
4 (2.6) |
0.96 (0.29, 3.20) |
4 (5.6) |
2.15 (0.64, 7.19) |
| e. The COVID-19 outbreak is not as serious as some people say it is | 37 (1.9) |
14 (12.5) |
6.06 (3.08, 11.9) |
31 (5.5) |
2.74 (1.66, 4.53) |
23 (7.6) |
3.82 (2.17, 6.72) |
6 (3.9) |
1.70 (0.65, 4.47) |
2 (2.8) |
1.41 (0.33, 6.01) |
| f. I do not trust the companies making COVID-19 vaccines | 142 (7.5) |
28 (24.8) |
3.60 (2.24, 5.78) |
72 (12.8) |
1.70 (1.25, 2.32) |
54 (17.7) |
2.21 (1.54, 3.15) |
26 (17.1) |
1.96 (1.20, 3.19) |
10 (13.9) |
1.50 (0.70, 3.21) |
| g. It is better to become immune to a disease by getting sick than by getting a shot | 42 (2.2) |
10 (8.8) |
4.11 (1.99, 8.50) |
32 (5.7) |
2.86 (1.76, 4.64) |
25 (8.3) |
3.86 (2.25, 6.62) |
10 (6.6) |
3.00 (1.41, 6.40) |
4 (5.6) |
2.67 (0.92, 7.69) |
| h. I worry that government rushed the vaccine approval process | 344 (18.2) |
43 (37.7) |
2.39 (1.59, 3.61) |
190 (33.6) |
2.01 (1.61, 2.50) |
108 (35.4) |
1.87 (1.42, 2.47) |
49 (32.2) |
1.59 (1.09, 2.32) |
20 (28.6) |
1.35 (0.76, 2.39) |
| Worries about vaccine (worries), % strongly agreeing or agreeing | |||||||||||
| Might not stop you from getting COVID | 502 (26.2) |
46 (39.7) |
1.73 (1.16, 2.57) |
191 (33.2) |
1.42 (1.15, 1.75) |
121 (39.3) |
1.74 (1.34, 2.27) |
48 (31.2) |
1.21 (0.83, 1.74) |
26 (35.6) |
1.36 (0.81, 2.27) |
| Might give you COVID and make you sick | 247 (12.9) |
43 (38.1) |
3.69 (2.44, 5.59) |
135 (23.6) |
2.27 (1.78, 2.90) |
104 (33.8) |
3.01 (2.26, 4.03) |
38 (24.8) |
2.01 (1.33, 3.04) |
19 (26.4) |
2.45 (1.41, 4.27) |
aOR, adjusted odds ratio, from logistic regression models including covariates for age, gender and education. Reference group is White.