With the pandemic's toll hitting rural communities especially hard, results from the Kaiser Family Foundation's COVID-19 December Vaccine Monitor are a cause for concern.
Rural residents are among the most vaccine hesitant groups, along with Republicans, individuals 30-49 years old, and Black adults.
Individuals living in rural areas in Texas are significantly less likely to say they will get a COVID-19 vaccine that is deemed safe and available at no cost than individuals living in suburban and urban Texas.
31% of people in rural areas say they will "definitely get" the vaccine, compared to 42% in urban areas and 43 % in suburban areas.
An additional one-third of people in rural areas say they will "probably get it" while 35% say they will either "probably not get it" and 15% saying they will "definitely not get it"
