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ONLY 4% OF people in Ireland say they are unsure whether they will get vaccinated for Covid-19, a new survey has found.
A survey conducted by Ipsos MRBI for the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA) heard that 89% of people intend to take a vaccine or have already received one – 6% said they would refuse a vaccine.
Ipsos MRBI surveyed 1,006 adults through telephone interviews between 31 May and 14 June, and found that 55% of the sample had already received a vaccine and a further 34% said they intend to take one.
The number of people who said they either won’t get vaccinated for Covid-19 or were unsure about taking a vaccine has declined since January by 15 points, according to previous polling by Ipsos MRBI.
In January, 7% said they would refuse a Covid-19 vaccine and 18% were unsure
A recent study by the Economic and Social Research Institute’s Behavioural Research Unit found a link between a reluctance to take the vaccine and a lack of knowledge and awareness of its benefits.
The Department of Health-funded study conducted a knowledge test and survey of attitudes among a nationally representative scale sample of the Irish population in January 2021.
It found that the fewer people followed news coverage about Covid-19, the less likely they were to want to take the vaccine.
Vaccine registration opened yesterday for people aged 35-39, and it is expected that this group will receive their first dose within three to four weeks.
The HSE is not expecting the vaccination programme to move into the 20-29 cohort until late August, as it moves to a reliance on just two brands of vaccine.
From July, the vaccination programme will move to a supply line of just two vaccines – the Pfizer and Moderna jabs – as these are the only two vaccines approved for use here in younger people.
According to the most recent figures, 61% of the adult population have received one dose and 31% are fully vaccinated.
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It’s pretty bad alright. I’ve been in monsoon rains in Asia, and it was nothing compared to the rain I experienced on the NSW south coast today. I’ve used the phrase “bucketing down” all my life, but today was the first time I’ve used it accurately without exaggeration. It was like thousands of buckets of water were just being poured from the sky, relentlessly for about an hour. Then it just went back to heavy rain. Then it bucketed again for another hour or so, and when it did, you literally couldn’t see a meter outside your window.
Due to get worse tomorrow and then reduce to heavy rain for the next 10 days or so. But with everything else that’s happening in the world, I count my chickens that we are in a safely high area, and not a flood plane or a war zone.
@Jonathan Nolan: As you know its come down from Brisbane .. and you’re right, never seen rain like it. 250mm each day for 3 days solid. Some places had over a metre in that time. Had we had one more day I’d be cleaning out my own flooded house right now.
@Pablo: take care Pablo. Let’s hope it calms down or goes off the coast or something. It’s pretty ridiculous the amount of water coming down stay safe
@Jonathan Nolan: Take care, Jonathan. Melbourne is unusually humid but dry for now. Time to get a federal government that takes climate change seriously, that spends our taxes where it is needed, rather than on their mate.
@A Well Known Comical Stereotype AKA PRGuy: your not wrong.
@A Well Known Comical Stereotype AKA PRGuy: yeah it’s been lovely in Melbourne the last few weeks. The rain up there looks crazy. I heard that in one hour somewhere in Queensland they had more than Melbourne’s entire annual rainfall!
Hope you stay safe and dry there and can help others out. A metre of rain sounds destructive, especially on baked-dry land.
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