Poll: 14% of vaccinated have ended friendships over vaccine status

OnePoll conducted a survey with 1,000 Americans on September 2 that asked the reasons for ending friendships in the last year and a half. The results revealed that 16 percent of the respondents said they have stopped being friends with three people they were previously close to since the pandemic began.

Sixty-six percent of respondents who said they have ended a friendship since March 2020 reported they were vaccinated against COVID-19, while 17 percent said they were unvaccinated and indicated they intended to stay that way.

Fourteen percent of the vaccinated respondents, or approximately 1 in 7, said they ended things with friends who refused to get vaccinated.