Poll reveals religious differences in acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine

A poll whose results were released Aug. 5 by the Public Religion Research Institute showed large differences between religious groups in their attitudes toward getting the COVID-19 vaccine for themselves or for their children. Forty percent of white Catholics and 48 percent of Hispanic Catholics said they have gotten or will get their children vaccinated, but only 18 percent of white evangelical Protestants and 27 percent of Hispanic Protestants said they will do the same. The two Protestant groups are the least likely to do so of all the groups surveyed in the poll. Among other groups, 33 percent of white mainline Protestants, 35 percent of Black Protestants and 35 percent of the religiously unaffiliated “are vaccine acceptant for their children,” PRRI said.

Poll reveals religious differences in acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine