CARBONDALE (WSIL) -- Nearly 80% of respondents to a survey of Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s students, faculty and staff report they are fully vaccinated or will receive their second shot before fall classes start Aug. 16.
The university conducted the survey as an aid to making plans for a fall semester with in-person classes and activities.
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The findings found:
Faculty/staff -- 884 completed survey, 3,109 contacted
- Fully vaccinated or received first shot, 89.6%
- Will receive vaccine when return to campus, 0.1%
- Waiting for full FDA approval or seeing how it affects other people, 4.8%
- Will not become vaccinated for religious or medical reasons, 3.3%
- Other, 2.1%
Students -- 1,656 completed survey, 10,888 contacted
- Fully vaccinated or received first shot, 79.6%
- Will receive vaccine when return to campus, 1.4%
- Waiting for full FDA approval or seeing how it affects other people, 9.7%
- Will not become vaccinated for religious or medical reasons, 6.8%
- Other, 2.5%
Common themes in the other response category: Already had COVID, feared side effects of vaccine and questioned safety, do not believe they should be required, they are healthy do not believe they need the vaccine, vaccinated with vaccine approved in another country.
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