Over a Quarter of EU Adults Would Refuse COVID-19 Shot, Survey Says

Vials with Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine labels stand in front of a European Union flag on March 19, 2021. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters

BRUSSELS—More than a quarter of adults in the European Union would be unlikely to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it was offered to them, a survey published on Thursday showed.

The results also suggested a strong link between vaccine hesitancy and the use of social media, particularly where social media is the main source of information, according to Eurofound which carried out the survey.