Poll: Americans' readiness to take the COVID vaccine spikes after the start of shots

In a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll Wednesday through Sunday, 46% say they will take the vaccine as soon as they can. That’s close to double the 26% who were ready to get the shot as soon as possible in a USA TODAY poll in late October. In the new poll, 32% say they will wait for others to get the shots before they do so themselves.

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“We need to get control of this virus, and that would be doing my part,” says Susan Sadule, 59, a retiree from Easton, Pennsylvania, who voted for Joe Biden in the presidential election. She was among those polled.

“From what I’ve read, it’s going to take about 75% of the nation taking the vaccine in order to create herd immunity,” says Lisa McAlister, 48, a registered nurse from Grove, Oklahoma, who voted for President Donald Trump, “and quite frankly, I don’t want to live in a pandemic the rest of my life.”

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