Open Forum Infect Dis . COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Health Care Workers in Four Health Care Systems in Atlanta

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Open Forum Infect Dis


. 2022 May 3;9(8)fac224.
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofac224. eCollection 2022 Aug.
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Health Care Workers in Four Health Care Systems in Atlanta


Sheetal Kandiah[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Onyinye Iheaku[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Mirza Farrque[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Jasmah Hanna[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Kalisha Bonds Johnson[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Zanthia Wiley[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Nicole M Franks[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Kelley Carroll[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Sangmin Ryan Shin[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Kanika Michele Sims[SUP] 8 [/SUP], Ambar Kulshreshtha[SUP] 9 [/SUP], CROSS Collaborative



Collaborators, Affiliations

• PMID: 36000002
• PMCID: PMC9129176
• DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac224

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine hesitancy among health care workers (HCWs) undermines community vaccine confidence. Predictors and reasons for HCW hesitancy in the Atlanta region were evaluated using a survey between May and June 2021. Vaccine hesitancy was highest in younger and less educated HCWs. Interventions to address vaccine hesitancy in HCWs are necessary.

Keywords: COVID-19 vaccines; vaccine hesitancy; vaccines.