Julia Seither

Senior Research Associate

Citizens from 13 countries share similar preferences for COVID-19 vaccine allocation priorities


Journal article


Raymond Duch, Laurence SJ Roope, Mara Violato, Matias Fuentes Becerra, Thomas S Robinson, Jean-Francois Bonnefon, Jorge Friedman, Peter John Loewen, Pavan Mamidi, Alessia Melegaro, others
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, 2021

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Duch, R., Roope, L. S. J., Violato, M., Fuentes Becerra, M., Robinson, T. S., Bonnefon, J.-F., … others. (2021). Citizens from 13 countries share similar preferences for COVID-19 vaccine allocation priorities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118.


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Duch, Raymond, Laurence SJ Roope, Mara Violato, Matias Fuentes Becerra, Thomas S Robinson, Jean-Francois Bonnefon, Jorge Friedman, et al. “Citizens from 13 Countries Share Similar Preferences for COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Priorities.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (2021).


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Duch, Raymond, et al. “Citizens from 13 Countries Share Similar Preferences for COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Priorities.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, 2021.


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@article{duch2021a,
  title = {Citizens from 13 countries share similar preferences for COVID-19 vaccine allocation priorities},
  year = {2021},
  journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
  volume = {118},
  author = {Duch, Raymond and Roope, Laurence SJ and Violato, Mara and Fuentes Becerra, Matias and Robinson, Thomas S and Bonnefon, Jean-Francois and Friedman, Jorge and Loewen, Peter John and Mamidi, Pavan and Melegaro, Alessia and others}
}

How does the public want a COVID-19 vaccine to be allocated? We conducted a conjoint experiment asking 15,536 adults in 13 countries to evaluate 248,576 profiles of potential vaccine recipients who varied randomly on five attributes. Our sample includes diverse countries from all continents. The results suggest that in addition to giving priority to health workers and to those at high risk, the public favors giving priority to a broad range of key workers and to those with lower income. These preferences are similar across respondents of different education levels, incomes, and political ideologies, as well as across most surveyed countries. The public favored COVID-19 vaccines being allocated solely via government programs but were highly polarized in some developed countries on whether taking a vaccine should be mandatory. There is a consensus among the public on many aspects of COVID-19 vaccination, which needs to be taken into account when developing and communicating rollout strategies.