Aussies increasingly willing to get vaccinated

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The ABS has released its final Household Impacts of COVID-19 survey, which contains the following chart showing that Australians are increasingly happy to get vaccinated:

Willingness to get vaccinated.

More Aussies happy to get vaccinated.

Specifically:

  • 73.4% of Australian adults agreed to get vaccinated in June 21, the highest recorded level.
  • Opposition to getting vaccinated fell to 11.4% in June 21, down from a peak of 13.4% in April.
  • 14.3% of adult Australians are indifferent to getting vaccinated, the lowest recorded level.

Of those that disagree to get vaccinated, the key two reasons are:

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  • concerns relating to potential side-effects (52%, a decrease from 64% in May 2021); and
  • concerns about how effective a COVID-19 vaccine might be (15%, similar to 12% in May 2021).

This survey raises hopes that enough Australians will get vaccinated to achieve ‘herd immunity’. At this stage, we have a long way to go with only 10% of 20% of adults full vaccinated across Australia’s states & territories:

Australian vaccination rates

Low vaccination rates.

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Yes, I am one of the minority of Australians that is fully vaccinated.

About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.