Reexamining health messages in the political age: The politicization of the COVID‐19 pandemic and its detrimental effects on vaccine hesitancy

Author:

Kareklas Ioannis1ORCID,Bhattacharya Devipsita1,Muehling Darrel D.2,Kisekka Victoria1

Affiliation:

1. University at Albany, State University of New York Albany New York USA

2. Carson College of Business Washington State University Pullman Washington USA

Abstract

AbstractOur work investigates the extent to which the politicization of health science may have impacted consumers' vaccine hesitancy during the COVID‐19 pandemic. This inter‐disciplinary, multi‐method manuscript reports the results of three empirical investigations designed to examine how the consumers' political leanings and the sources they rely on for information might influence their decisions to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine. We explore how radically opposing viewpoints regarding the pandemic may have eroded public trust in government institutions and health science during the months leading up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In addition, we examine how consumers with opposing political leanings may be differentially influenced by promotional messages that represent the two dominant contrasting viewpoints regarding the COVID‐19 pandemic. Importantly, we find that low vaccine‐hesitant Trump voters can be successfully targeted for pro‐vaccination interventions using highly credible spokespeople, perceived to have high levels of expertise and trustworthiness.

Funder

University at Albany

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

General Economics, Econometrics and Finance,Sociology and Political Science

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