Citizens from 13 Countries Share Similar Preferences for COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Priorities

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 2021 Sep 16

PMID 34526400

Citations 24

Authors

Raymond Duch

Laurence S J Roope

Mara Violato

Matias Fuentes Becerra

Thomas S Robinson

Jean-Francois Bonnefon

Jorge Friedman

Peter John Loewen

Pavan Mamidi

Alessia Melegaro

Mariana Blanco

Juan Vargas

Julia Seither

Paolo Candio

Ana Gibertoni Cruz

Xinyang Hua

Adrian Barnett

Philip M Clarke

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Abstract

How does the public want a COVID-19 vaccine to be allocated? We conducted a conjoint experiment asking 15,536 adults in 13 countries to evaluate 248,576 profiles of potential vaccine recipients who varied randomly on five attributes. Our sample includes diverse countries from all continents. The results suggest that in addition to giving priority to health workers and to those at high risk, the public favors giving priority to a broad range of key workers and to those with lower income. These preferences are similar across respondents of different education levels, incomes, and political ideologies, as well as across most surveyed countries. The public favored COVID-19 vaccines being allocated solely via government programs but were highly polarized in some developed countries on whether taking a vaccine should be mandatory. There is a consensus among the public on many aspects of COVID-19 vaccination, which needs to be taken into account when developing and communicating rollout strategies.

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