Revealing Decision-Making Strategies of Americans in Taking COVID-19 Vaccination.
Bull Math Biol
; 86(6): 72, 2024 May 10.
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ABSTRACT
Efficient coverage for newly developed vaccines requires knowing which groups of individuals will accept the vaccine immediately and which will take longer to accept or never accept. Of those who may eventually accept the vaccine, there are two main types success-based learners, basing their decisions on others' satisfaction, and myopic rationalists, attending to their own immediate perceived benefit. We used COVID-19 vaccination data to fit a mechanistic model capturing the distinct effects of the two types on the vaccination progress. We proved the identifiability of the population proportions of each type and estimated that 47 % of Americans behaved as myopic rationalists with a high variation across the jurisdictions, from 31 % in Mississippi to 76 % in Vermont. The proportion was correlated with the vaccination coverage, proportion of votes in favor of Democrats in 2020 presidential election, and education score.
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Assunto principal:
Tomada de Decisões
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Conceitos Matemáticos
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Vacinas contra COVID-19
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COVID-19
Limite:
Humans
País como assunto:
America do norte
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En
Ano de publicação:
2024
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Article