Alan Gerber, Saad Omer: Unvaccinated white evangelicals appear immune to pro-vaccine messaging

December 7, 2021

“White evangelical Christians have resisted getting vaccinated against COVID-19 at higher rates than other religious groups in the United States. A new study by Yale researchers provides evidence that persuading these vaccine holdouts to get their shots has only gotten more difficult.

The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, combines two survey experiments testing the effectiveness of various persuasive messages in shifting white evangelicals’ attitudes about vaccination.

Read the entire article here: https://news.yale.edu/2021/11/29/unvaccinated-white-evangelicals-appear-immune-pro-vaccine-messaging