More than one in five Britons are unlikely to accept a jab against Covid-19 amid widespread misinformation about side effects and profiteering, a study has found.
Researchers from University College London said that only 49 per cent of people claimed they would be “very likely” to get inoculated once a coronavirus vaccine was approved.
The Covid-19 Social Study found that 22 per cent were “unlikely” to do so, of whom almost half were “very unlikely”.
Fifteen per cent believed, to varying degrees, that vaccines did not work, and 25 per cent thought that vaccines were used for commercial profiteering. Four per cent “strongly” believed that vaccine programmes were a con by pharmaceutical companies.
More than 70,000 participants were questioned, of whom 53 per cent believed