Skepticism about the COVID-19 vaccine has fallen steadily in California as inoculations increase. In a poll released late Tuesday by the Public Policy Institute of California, 26% of registered Republicans said they will definitely not get vaccinated, and 13% said they probably won’t be. The poll of 1,706 adult residents mirrors similar results in other recent U.S. polls and challenges the assertion that the highest rates of vaccine skepticism are among Black and Latino residents. About 29% of Black Californians said they would probably or definitely refuse the vaccine, down from 55% in January. A poll released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the highest rates of vaccine refusal were among Republicans (29%) and white evangelical Christians (28%).

Source: Los Angeles Times March 31, 2021 13:02 UTC