How Fox News viewers are less likely to get vaccinated

According to the combined sample, 62% of adults who use Fox News as their main news source have received at least one dose of the vaccine. That’s not nothing, but it’s still relatively low…

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The people who get their news from CNN or MSNBC, for example, had a vaccination rate of 83% in the same polling. Likewise, 79% of adults who rely on network news have had at least one dose of a vaccine. About three-quarters (74%) who get their news from public television or radio were at least partially vaccinated.

On the one hand, this really shouldn’t be surprising. Fox News viewers are far more Republican leaning than those of most other television news outlets. We know from the data that Republicans are less likely to get vaccinated, regardless of their main news source.

Put another way, it’s not clear whether Fox News is causing people to want the vaccine less or whether its viewers are predisposed to want it less.

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