Paradox: Researchers from Brno have found that educated people trust vaccination the least
While in the pre-pandemic, eighty-five percent of people trusted vaccination, in December 2020 it was only sixty-four percent. “The proportion of people who are hesitant to be vaccinated, ie they are neither trusting nor distrustful, has increased, from twelve percent in 2008 to thirty percent in 2020,” said Tomáš Zvoníček, a member of a research team at Masaryk University.
According to him, one of the possible reasons for this change is the covid pandemic, which turned the previously specific topic, which mainly concerned parents of young children, into a topic that affects everyone.
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The higher educated people are, the lower their confidence in vaccinations. As many as two-fifths of university-educated Czechs express uncertainty or overwhelmed distrust of vaccination, which is the most of all educational groups.
The opposite rule applies to the willingness to be vaccinated against Covid-19. The higher the education of people, the higher their willingness to get vaccinated. “In April 2021, sixty percent of university-educated people declared that they would be vaccinated, while the same proportion of people with basic education at that time refused to be vaccinated or had not yet been decided,” Zvoníček concluded.
According to researchers at Masaryk University, the willingness to be vaccinated against covid is only related to the attitude towards vaccination as such. “It creates a kind of covid vaccination paradox. Although higher education is the most critical of vaccination as such, it also shows the highest willingness to be vaccinated against covid, “added Martin Kreidl, head of the research team at Masaryk University.