{"id":55319,"date":"2022-02-16T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/survey-data-shows-why-some-wa-parents-are-hesitant-to-vaccinate-their-children\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T23:00:00","slug":"survey-data-shows-why-some-wa-parents-are-hesitant-to-vaccinate-their-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/survey-data-shows-why-some-wa-parents-are-hesitant-to-vaccinate-their-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey data shows why some WA parents are hesitant to vaccinate their children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau is shedding light on the different reasons parents are hesitant to get their children vaccinated and how those reasons vary across different states.<\/p>\n<p>Parents were asked about children age 5 to 17 for the survey.<\/p>\n<p>According to an analysis from <a href=\"https:\/\/quotewizard.com\/news\/posts\/parent-vaccine-hesitancy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quote Wizard<\/a>, the number one reason why parents in Washington are hesitant to vaccinate their children is because they are concerned about the side effects. Fifty-nine percent of respondents in Washington cited this reason.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania had the highest percentage of participants select this rationale, with 79 percent of participants pointing to concern over side effects.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, it was also the most popularly cited reason, with 63 percent of respondents across the nation saying they were concerned about the side effects.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-two percent of respondents in Washington said that they did not trust the vaccine. Only five other states recorded a higher percentage of respondents selecting that reason. The state with the highest percentage of participants saying they did not trust the vaccine was Hawaii, with 57 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty percent of respondents in Washington said they did not believe their children needed the vaccine. Thirty-one percent said they are waiting to see if the vaccine is safe.<\/p>\n<p>Washington had the same percentage of participants respond by saying they simply do not get their children vaccinated with 4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon had the highest percentage of respondents say that they do not vaccinate their children with 15 percent, followed by Montana at 14 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census Bureau survey data shows what reasons are cited, and how Washington compares to other states. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":849,"featured_media":55320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55319"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=55319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}