A survey shows attitudes towards getting a Covid 19 vaccine are changing.
The Texas Episcopal Health Foundation surveyed 12 hundred Texans in September, and then against at the end of last month and beginning of this one. In September, about half said they would likely get a vaccine, and now the number is nearly 60 percent. The Foundation's Brian Sasser says more African Americans moved from the no to the yes column than any other group.
"There is no doubt that communities of color and low income residents have been hit the worst by this. The hope is that those numbers of those folks who say they will get the vaccine will only go up, because they are the ones being most affected."
Sasser says the goal is to get the message out to those most impacted by this deadly pandemic. "To know why this vaccine is safe and why it is effective. To hear it from people they trust. The hope is that will convince those who have been most affected by the virus to get the vaccine and move forward for everybody."
Overall, 37 percent of Texans say they are very likely to get a Covid-19 vaccine and 26 percent said they are somewhat likely.
21 percent of Texans say they are they are very unlikely to get vaccinated. That's down from 36 percent in September. Sasser says he hopes that as these vaccines roll out that number will change.
He says people who are uninsured, Republicans and those with some college education say they are the least likely to get the vaccine. College graduates, Democrats, Texans over 65 are the three top groups to say they wanted the shot.
You can see the survey here;