Misperceptions about doctor’s trust in Covid-19 vaccines influence vaccination rate

While 89% of Czech medical doctors confirmed their trust in the Covid-19 vaccines, most respondents from the general public assumed that this was true for only half of the doctors. MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance While 89% of Czech medical doctors confirmed their trust in the Covid-19 vaccines, most respondents from the general public assumed that this was true for only half of the doctors. MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance - Informing people about the strong positive consensus among doctors persistently leads to increases in Covid-19 vaccinations How to increase vaccination rates by autumn, without any compulsion is shown by an international research team including the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance. They found that people's willingness to get vaccinated is related to the presumed trust the medical doctors have in the vaccines. However, the study shows a large discrepancy between the assumptions of the population and the actual views of the medical profession. For the study published in Nature, economists Vojtech Bartoš, Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková and Julie Chytilová surveyed more than 9,600 medical doctors and a representative group of 2,100 people in the Czech Republic. In January 2021, when the Covid-19 vaccines were not yet available to the general public, about 90 percent of the surveyed doctors stated that they trusted the vaccines, and planned to get vaccinated themselves.