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What makes rational people so opposed to corona vaccines?

One in four Israeli citizens does not agree to be vaccinated against Corona.

According to a new and comprehensive study, this resistance is related, among other things, to the degree of our trust in the leadership of the state.

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Thursday, 04 November 2021, 06:52 Updated: 08:22

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At this stage of the corona epidemic there is no doubt that vaccines are helping us, very much.

And yet there are quite a few - in fact 1 in 4 - Israelis who strongly refuse to be vaccinated.

Sometimes these are the same Israelis who in the past agreed to receive vaccines that they knew very little about, or those who agreed to a first dose of corona vaccine without fear, but in the booster dose - got cold feet.

A new and comprehensive study by Tel Aviv University and Tel Hai Academic reveals that this refusal to get vaccinated is largely based on a lack of trust in the state leadership.

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The study data show that almost one in four Israeli citizens (23 percent) opposes vaccines for Corona.

45 percent of those who have not yet completed 3 vaccines, believe the vaccine is unnecessary or unjustified.

Women reported greater disagreement with vaccines, compared to men.

These data on vaccine opponents were mostly known (and alarming), but a new statistic for the first time raises a relatively plausible reason for this irrational behavior.

The researchers found for the first time significant differences in the level of national resilience between those who were vaccinated and those who were not vaccinated.

The researchers' conclusion is that the more citizens support and trust the state leadership, the more likely they are to be vaccinated.

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The study, which included a large sample of over 2,000 respondents, was conducted in early October 2021, and examined, among other things, the public's attitudes toward vaccines for corona and the relationship of these attitudes to national resilience measures, feelings of danger and demographic variables.

The study was conducted by a combined team of researchers that included Prof. Shaul Kimchi, Prof. Yohanan Eshel and Dr. Hadas Marciano from the Center for Stress and Resilience Research at Tel Hai Academic College and Dr. Bruria Adini, from the Department of Emergency and Disaster Management, Tel Aviv University School of Public Health -Spring.

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The researchers focused on the demographic differences between the two extreme groups in the level of immunization: the unvaccinated group relative to the group of three vaccine recipients.

The data show that the group of recipients of three vaccines was found to have a significantly higher average family income compared to the unvaccinated and to have a higher education.

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But despite these differences, trust in the leadership of the state was the most significant difference. According to the researchers, "The most notable finding of the present study is the relationship between national resilience and attitudes toward vaccines: the higher the respondents reported national resilience, the more support they received for vaccines, and vice versa," they wrote. They added that one way to interpret this finding is to argue that people who believe in the leadership of the state and its leaders will have a greater tendency to respond to instructions and requests from state institutions and leaders, such as immunization.

The researchers believe that although state authorities are investing considerable efforts in convincing the public that the corona plague is still dangerous and that we must take precautions despite the progress made so far, the focus should be expanded on the issue of advocacy.

"The findings of the present study show that public attitudes are not influenced primarily by disseminated information about the disease and the vaccine but mainly by the degree of trust in the state leadership," the researchers said in a statement. The public's trust in immunization is related, among other things, to the level of national resilience as a whole. "

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