Younger Americans are least likely to vaccinate

Look again at that Quinnipiac poll. Among those adults under the age of 35, 36% say they don't plan on getting a Covid-19 vaccine. That's higher than the 27% overall and much higher than the 10% of senior citizens who say they won't get a shot. This poll's result has been repeated over and over again in the polling data. Just 49% of those under the age of 30 in last month's Kaiser Family Foundation survey told the pollster that they would be getting a vaccine as soon as possible or had already gotten one. That's below the 61% overall and well below the 81% of senior citizens... The fact that younger people have been slower on the vaccine uptake is worrisome because they are also the least likely to socially distance themselves. According to an average of March Axios/Ipsos polls, adults under the age of 30 were on average 7 points less likely to say they were socially distancing than adults overall. This lack of social distancing and lack of vaccine uptake could help to explain why younger people have been the most likely to get infected with the coronavirus recently. Throughout March, 18- to 24-year-olds had the highest number of cases per 100,000 people. The second highest was 25- to 34-year-olds. The initial data we have from April shows the same thing.