Poll: Vaccinated Americans are more worried about getting sick from COVID-19 than their unvaccinated peers

A recent Morning Consult/New York Times poll shows that vaccinated (and boosted) Americans are about twice as likely to say they are “very” or “somewhat” concerned about “getting sick from COVID-19 within the next year.”

According to recent studies out of the U.K. and Canada, unvaccinated individuals are five times as likely to end up in the hospital than those who have received the vaccine, and vaccination has reduced the risk of ending up in an intensive care unit (ICU) by more than 93 percent. 

If you’ve had the vaccination and a booster shot, you’re roughly 50 times less likely to end up hospitalized with COVID than someone who has not received a single dose, according to an analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Vaccinated individuals without any serious underlying health issues are as safe from COVID as anyone could hope to be according to health experts.  

The new Morning Consult poll also cites a line from comedian Dave Barry’s 2021 “year in review” column. “Many Americans have been vaccinated but continue to act as though they have not,” Barry wrote, in what he said was satire. “Many other Americans have not been vaccinated but act as though they have.”