Polls shows rural Americans resist COVID vaccine

POWELL (WNE) — A recent survey found rural Americans are the least likely to take a vaccine for COVID-19 and the most likely to consider the innoculation as a personal choice rather than a social responsibility. 

Nearly 40% of rural residents who responded to the Kaiser Family Foundation survey said they were not worried that they or someone in their family would contract the virus, compared to 23% of urban residents; that was even though rural residents were just as prone as city or suburban dwellers to know someone who had been ill with or died from the disease, Kaiser found after polling 1,676 adults. 

More than half of rural residents said getting a vaccine is a personal choice (62%) while in urban and suburban areas, the response that it was a social responsibility tipped the scales at 55% and 47%, respectively.