Around 1.3 Billion People Worldwide Don’t Want the COVID-19 Vaccine: Gallup Poll

Around 1.3 Billion People Worldwide Don’t Want the COVID-19 Vaccine: Gallup Poll
A nurse administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a man in Houston, Texas, on Feb. 11, 2021. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP
Meiling Lee
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Around 1.3 billion people worldwide said that they will not get a COVID-19 vaccine if it became available at no cost, according to a Gallup poll taken in the last six months of 2020 and released Monday.

The 1.3 billion was a combination of 29 percent, or around three in 10 adults, worldwide who refused to be vaccinated, and another 3 percent who were undecided or refused to answer.