A majority — 78 percent — of people not planning to get a COVID-19 vaccine are unlikely to change their mind, according to a Gallup poll released June 7.
The poll found that 76 percent of U.S. adults say they've either been vaccinated against COVID-19 or plan to be. That number has been stable for the past three months, Gallup said.
In a survey conducted May 18 to May 23, 24 percent of U.S. adults said they do not plan to be vaccinated. Among those, 78 percent said they're unlikely to reconsider, with 51 percent saying they are "not likely at all" to change their minds on getting a shot. That leaves about 1 in 5 reluctant adults being open to reconsidering.
Among reluctant adults, 2 percent said they're very likely to reconsider and 19 percent said they were somewhat likely, equivalent to 5 percent of all U.S. adults.
Gallup predicted based on its data that the ceiling on U.S. COVID-19 vaccinations could be about 80 percent of the adult population. Its surveys conducted in March and April found no dominant reason cited by reluctant adults for not getting vaccinated, though the most common reasons were wanting to confirm the vaccine was safe and a belief that they wouldn't get seriously ill from COVID-19.
Find Gallup's full news release here.