Has he heard Miriam O’Callaghan correctly, you see him wonder, when she indicated almost a third of Irish people would be unlikely to take the first publicly available EU-approved Covid vaccine. That’s really surprising to me,” he says, adding the WHO doesn’t want any vaccines which have questions about safety offered to people. On the other hand, 56 per cent of people say they’re likely take the vaccine (12 per cent don’t know). But, as presenter Mark Coughlan pointed out, experts say 75 per cent of the population will need to get the vaccine to develop herd immunity. The level of suspicion of a Covid vaccine was a surprising finding in The Next Normal (RTÉ One, Thursday), a Prime Time edition based on a Behaviours and Attitudes poll RTÉ commissioned six months into the Covid crisis, to measure shifts in values and attitudes.

Source: The Irish Times October 02, 2020 06:00 UTC