Factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine uptake among minority ethnic groups

Publication type

Report

Author

Publication date

January 15, 2021

Summary:

Paper by the ethnicity sub-group on factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine uptake among minority ethnic groups. It was considered at SAGE 73 [meeting] on 17 December 2020.

The paper is the assessment of the evidence at the time of writing. As new evidence or data emerges, SAGE updates its advice accordingly.

These documents are released as pre-print publications that have provided the government with rapid evidence during an emergency. These documents have not been peer-reviewed and there is no restriction on authors submitting and publishing this evidence in peer-reviewed journals.

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Link

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/factors-influencing-covid-19-vaccine-uptake-among-minority-ethnic-groups-17-december-2020

Notes

Uses data from: Robertson, E., Reeve, K., Niedzwiedz, C.L., Moore, J., Blake, M., Green, M., Katikireddi, S.V., and Benzeval, M. (2021) 'Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK Household Longitudinal Study', medRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2020.12.27.20248899

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