Are you trying to encourage the football team to get

Or not...

PHDs are the group with the highest vaccine hesitancy.

"Hesitancy held constant in the most educated group (those with a Ph.D.); by May Ph.D.’s were the most hesitant group."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/americans-with-phds-are-most-reluctant-to-get-vaccinated-against-covid/ar-AANjRHh

Americans with PhDs are most reluctant to get vaccinated against COVID

Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburg reported a U-shaped correlation between vaccine skepticism and education. The highest hesitancy was among the least and most educated.

Also, this article by National Review digs through some of the details:

"Proponents of the vaccine are unwilling or unable to understand the thinking of vaccine skeptics — or even admit that skeptics may be thinking at all. Their attempts to answer skepticism or understand it end up poisoned by condescension, and end up reinforcing it."

AND

"But a study done at MIT showed that a substantial portion of public-health skepticism was highly informed, scientifically literate, and sophisticated in the use of data. Skeptics used the same data sets as those with the orthodox views on public health."

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/convincing-the-skeptics/

Convincing the Skeptics | National Review

Getting COVID vaccine skeptics on board will require abandoning efforts that seem like open manipulation in defiance of the evidence.

I'm sure this will only fall on deaf ears...or at least non-listening ears because you are too busy thinking of some wonderful witticism to post.

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GO read the actual article, it is open access: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v1.full-text

Time trends and factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy from January-May 2021 among US adults: Findings from a large-scale national survey

Objective To understand COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.

Methods January 6 through May 31, 2021, 5,121,436 US adults completed an online COVID-19 survey. Weighted data was used to evaluate change in vaccine intent and correlates of May vaccine hesitancy.

Results COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy decreased by one-third from January to May, with relatively large decreases among participants with Black, Pacific Islander or Hispanic race/ethnicity and ?high school education. In May, independent hesitancy risk factors included younger age, non-Asian race, having a PhD or ?high school education, living in a rural county, living in a county with higher 2020 Trump support, lack of worry about COVID-19, working outside the home, never intentionally avoiding contact with others, and no past-year flu vaccine. Differences in hesitancy by race/ethnicity varied by age. Almost half of vaccine hesitant respondents reported fear of side effects and not trusting the COVID-19 vaccine; over one-third reported not trusting the government, not needing the vaccine, and waiting to see if safe. Reasons differed by degree of vaccine intent and by race/ethnicity.

Conclusion COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy varied by demographics, geography, beliefs, and behaviors.

### Competing Interest Statement

Drs. King, Mejia and Mr. Rubenstein have no conflict of interest to report. Dr. Reinhart received salary support from an unrestricted gift from Facebook.

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"PhD" level is not =/= PhD - it is often just a placeholder for doctorates because PhD comprise one of the bigger groups. EDs, and other doctoral degrees are likely lumped together.

However, PhD are going to me much more skeptical of things in general. I am not surprised as more replied more in the "probably not/yes" and that is skewing the marker. They do say more study is warranted to check this result.

But, that being said...