Majority of Americans reject mandatory COVID-19 vaccines, survey finds. | Adobe Stock
Majority of Americans reject mandatory COVID-19 vaccines, survey finds. | Adobe Stock
Most Americans want to have a choice to be vaccinated or not against COVID-19, according to a recent nationwide survey.
A study found the majority of participants want the final say on getting the coronavirus vaccine.
"Americans have never taken kindly to being told what to do, and they are not going to start now," Mark Meckler, President of Convention of States Action, said on the organization's website. "After being told ‘my body, my choice’ for nearly five decades by the same crowd, now hypocritically pushing mandates, is it any wonder the public isn’t on board?"
The survey was conducted by the Trafalgar Group, in partnership with the Convention of States Action, and surveyed 1,077 likely general election voters. The poll found a 71.4% said that it should be a personal choice, and only 21.8% supported a vaccine mandate.
"These numbers reveal that hundreds of millions of social media messages, a constant stream of propaganda from the press, paid TV and radio ad campaigns coast-to-coast, daily hammering from Biden Administration officials, and cajoling from influencers and celebrities on every possible communication platform are having one profound effect on the public," Meckler said. "It’s all backfiring."
The results did vary slightly by partisan affiliation, but both sides had majorities in support of personal choice with 58.7% of Democrats and 87.3% of Republicans in favor of having a personal choice for the coronavirus vaccine over a mandate. For independents or third-party supporters, 67.2% agreed.
Convention of States Action is a grassroots political organization with over 5 million supporters across the United States. The organization's primary focus is calling an Article V convention of the states to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution. It only promotes amendments that would impose limitations on the size and scope of the federal government.
The Trafalgar Group is a public polling and market research firm. Its website states that Real Clear Politics called it the "most accurate pollster of the cycle among those firms that polled multiple Senate and governor races" this year.
Our World in Data reports that 53.10% of Iowans have had at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, with 49.53% being fully vaccinated, as of July 29. This amounts to 1.56 million fully vaccinated people.
Polk County has the most positive coronavirus test in Iowa at 66,689, as of July 28.
Informed Choice Iowa — a group that advocates against mandatory vaccinations and vaccine passports — protested after hospitals in the state and nationwide required staff to be vaccinated or be fired. State Rep. Jeff Shipley (R-Birmingham) and State Sen. Dennis Guth (R-Klemme) spoke at the event, saying similar anti-vaccination messages.
"We're going to be asked to give up more freedoms later," Guth said, according to the Des Moines Register.
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