Polls on wearing masks and U.S.parents' attitudes toward getting their under 5-year-old kids vaccinated for covid

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Wed, 2022-05-04 12:15 — mike kraft

With news that Moderna has asked the FDA to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine for young children, the latest KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor survey finds that about one in five parents of children under age 5 (18%) are eager to get their child vaccinated right away, while a larger share (38%) say they plan to wait a while to see how the vaccine is working for others. About four in ten parents of children under 5 are more reluctant to get their child vaccinated with 27% saying they will “definitely not” get their child vaccinated and 11% saying they will only do so if they are required. Just over half of parents of children in this age range say they do not have enough information about the vaccines’ safety and effectiveness for children under age 5.
With mask mandates being lifted in many places, most workers say they and their coworkers are not regularly wearing masks when indoors at work. Just under four in ten (38%) of those who work outside their home say they wore a mask every time or most of the time when indoors at their place of work in the past 30 days, and 43% say they never wore a mask at work in the past 30 days. Black workers (64%), Hispanic workers (52%), and those with lower incomes (61%) are more likely than their counterparts to report wearing masks at work at least most of the time.
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