More than half of Americans approve vaccine mandates for work as hospitals watch carefully how mandates at other hospitals play out, according to a June 8 Axios/Ipsos poll.
The survey was published just hours after Houston Methodist's midnight deadline for employees to receive at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose or receive an exemption. The hospital reported that nearly 100 percent of the hospital's 26,000 employees have complied with the mandate.
The Axios/Ipsos survey was conducted from June 4-7 and asked a nationally representative sample of 1,027 American adults their thoughts surrounding vaccines.
Four key findings:
- Fifty-two percent of Americans support having to show proof of vaccination to return to normal employment. However, more Americans strongly oppose it (31 percent) than strongly support it (25 percent).
- Twelve percent of respondents who have not received the COVID-19 vaccine said they will, but they want to wait. That time frame ranges from weeks to more than a year.
- Nineteen percent of respondents are taking a hard pass on the vaccine, a number that has had a downward trend since the poll's inception in August.
- Just 2 percent of unvaccinated respondents said they are very likely to get the vaccine as soon as it's available to them.