A new Suan Dusit Poll this week reveals that a majority of people in Thailand are willing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 by whatever shot is available from the government. The poll, conducted by Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, surveyed 2,644 people online throughout Thailand between May 17 and May 20 about their opinions on the government’s push to vaccinate people to work towards herd immunity.
The government has been actively promoting vaccination with a variety of registration plans and an informational educational campaign to convince hesitant people that vaccines are effective and safe and that everyone needs to get vaccinated to reach herd immunity against Covid-19 in Thailand so the borders can reopen, and this poll gauges the effectiveness of their messaging.
Only 13.3% of those surveys said they did not want to be vaccinated, while 64.4% said they will take a vaccine provided by the government. 22.3% were undecided. The public does feel fairly educated about vaccines with 29.3% saying they had good knowledge of vaccines and 57.4% saying they had fair knowledge. 3.7% responded to the poll saying that they knew nothing about Covid-19 vaccines and 9.5% were underinformed about them.
Some encouraging news – 56.5% of those surveyed in the poll had registered for a Covid-19 vaccination appointment already, 32.4% had not yet, and 11.1% were undecided about registering. 59.6% worry about side effects but 57.2% believe vaccines help reduce Covid-19 illness and build immunity when polled about their opinion on Thailand’s vaccine rollout. 48.5% wanted a faster vaccination process.
Proving Lampang province’s method of door-to-door education, which has been very effective in registering people for vaccines, 67.7% of those who answered the poll said that medical personnel explaining the Covid-19 vaccine would build their confidence. About 52% agreed that 2 things that would give them faith in vaccination programmes are information about the pros and cons of vaccines (such as warnings, side effects and benefits) and reliable information on how effective the vaccine they are receiving is.
A big question in the modern age of conflicting information, youtube “experts”, fake news, and confusing data is who you can trust for information about Covid-19 vaccines. While 16.6% trusted the World Health Organisation and globally respected medical journals, 31% had faith in the Ministry of Public Health and other government agencies as well as health volunteers. 17.4% relied on TV, radio and social media for Covid-19 vaccine information.
Finally, which Covid-19 vaccine is most trusted according to the Suan Dusit poll? Survey respondents were allowed to choose multiple answers, and Pfizer and Moderna came out on top with 75.1% and 72.1% respectively. Johnson & Johnson ranked 3rd with 68.5% trusting it, followed closely by AstraZeneca at 65.9% and Sputnik V at 61.9%. Sinovac was noticeably missing from the poll responses.
SOURCE: Bangkok Post
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And another 10 percent answered “Will I have the chance to win a brown cow if I have the vaccine.”
Sputnik V sounds legit ?
“56.5% of those surveyed in the poll had registered for a Covid-19 vaccination appointment already,”
Comparing that with the known numbers who have already registered shows the validity and value of the poll.
Zero.
“64.4% said they will take a vaccine provided by the government … 29.3% saying they had good knowledge of vaccines and 57.4% saying they had fair knowledge.”
vs
“… which Covid-19 vaccine is most trusted according to the Suan Dusit poll … Sinovac was noticeably missing from the poll responses.”
Isn’t there a major dichotomy there? Unless those polled think they’re not getting Sinovac, which is the only explanation …
Were these people informed that the vaccines are experimental, have not been fully tested, and that no one knows what the long term effects of vaccination will be? The only reason so many are willing to take it is that they are being misinformed by the Government and the media (especially the media!) as to the relative risk of the “virus” and the risk of the so called “vaccines”. If what is happening in western countries is any indication we will see more adverse vaccine reactions than Covid cases. And where will the Government and media be then? Will they take the responsibility for their irresponsible actions? If the past in any indication, probably not.
@Rick – No one knows the LT effects of ‘ANY’ newly approved medication or vaccine. The vaccines have all been through standardized rigorous clinical trials and have since been received by hundreds of millions of recipients with less than a tenth of one percent mortality. That mortality is NOT confirmed vaccine mortality but must be reported as such due to clinical protocols. Stop spreading unfounded information as it is your ‘opinion’ and that is all – ‘opinion’.
Vaccines are now tested on humans
@Miran – Sinovac is chinese, many chinese refused this vaccine in china. Hahaha, approved my foot…..tested my other foot…. Sinovac and CP.. Chinese tailor made. CP= Thailand + China= MONEY(corruption).
Get the point!
Well Miran, thank you so much for proving my point that Government and media are not being honest and are misrepresenting the relative risk of these “vaccines”. First of all, in most countries, none of these “vaccines” have been “approved” but have only been given Emergency Use Authorization, which is very different. Secondly the safety trials are still ongoing and the general public are being used as experimental guinea pigs. Not to mention the fact that one of the most important aspects of the trials – the animal trials – were completely skipped and in previous animal trials of the mRNA “vaccines” all of the animals ended up dying. Thirdly, in countries like the US and UK there are reports of thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of serious adverse reactions from these experimental “vaccines” and it is well known that only a small percentage of adverse reactions are ever even reported, which means the numbers are probably much higher. And if we add the fact that the US Red Cross has banned people who have had the Covid jabs from donating blood for convalescing Covid patients because these “vaccines” wipe out Covid antibodies in the people who take them, I think we have a clearer picture of the risk to benefit ratio.
“… in countries like the US and UK there are reports of thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of serious adverse reactions from these experimental “vaccines” …”
Really?
WHERE?
“… the US Red Cross has banned people who have had the Covid jabs from donating blood for convalescing Covid patients because these “vaccines” wipe out Covid antibodies in the people who take them,…”
What absolute, total crap, @Rick.
The US Red Cross have done no such thing – they have NOT banned them from donating blood, but convalescent plasma – totally different.
From the US Red Cross site, unedited:
“Individuals who have received a COVID-19 vaccine are not able to donate convalescent plasma with the Red Cross.
However, these individuals may be eligible to donate other blood products with the Red Cross including whole blood and platelets if they meet other donation eligibility”
As usual Simon Small (aka Isaan john), you will pick out one small mistake and try to discredit what someone says based on that. Okay, you are correct, it was plasma, but they still say that it wipes out Coivid antibodies, which was the point. But this was only an afterthought to my other comments which are much more important – the “vaccines” have not been approved, they are still in the trial phase, and all of the animals died in previous testing. This you cannot deny. The information on deaths and adverse reactions is easy to find (and you know this John) in the VAERS reporting system in the US and a recent report from the UK Government. I would give you the title to that report but then the Thaiger would probably ban my post as they have done so many times when I try to present actual documented facts. You should be able to find it John as you obviously have the time to research whatever facts suit your narritive.