Vaccine hesitancy stems from a gap in knowledge or awareness of the benefits - ESRI

Bluetts Pharmacy in Clonakilty, West Cork, is administering the one-shot Janssen vaccine. Picture: Andy Gibson

Hesitancies around taking a Covid-19 vaccine stems from a gap in knowledge or awareness of the benefits, new research by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has found.

Researchers at the ESRI’s behavioural research unit tested the knowledge and surveyed the attitudes of a nationally representative sample of the adult population in January this year to find a clear gap in knowledge and awareness between those who were willing to take the vaccine and those who were not.