Nearly 50% of NYers won't take or aren't sure about taking COVID-19 vaccine: report
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- New York City residents are split almost evenly in their views toward the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a report.
Nearly 53 percent of New Yorkers who responded to an online Department of Health and Mental Hygiene poll conducted in October said they would take a COVID-19 vaccine, the New York Post reported, citing information Commissioner Dave Chokshi shared during a City Council hearing on Friday.
Twenty percent of respondents, however, said they did not plan to get vaccinated, according to the outlet. Twenty-seven percent, meanwhile, were undecided.
The October poll was just the first of several surveys the department plans to conduct to determine how it will work to build trust in the vaccine, the outlet reported.
"We need New Yorkers to trust us," Chokshi said. "[With] some communities — especially the Black community — that trust will be hard won because of decades of systemic racism."
