Revealing decision-making strategies of Americans in taking COVID-19 vaccination

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dc.contributor.authorAghaeeyan, Azadeh
dc.contributor.authorRamazi, Pouria
dc.contributor.authorLewis, Mark A.
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T22:59:50Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T22:59:50Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractEfficient coverage for newly developed vaccines requires knowing which groups of individuals will accept the vaccine immediately and which will take longer to accept or never accept. Of those who may eventually accept the vaccine, there are two main types: success-based learners, basing their decisions on others’ satisfaction, and myopic rationalists, attending to their own immediate perceived benefit. We used COVID-19 vaccination data to fit a mechanistic model capturing the distinct effects of the two types on the vaccination progress. We estimated that 47% of Americans behaved as myopic rationalists with a high variation across the jurisdictions, from 31% in Mississippi to 76% in Vermont. The proportion was correlated with the vaccination coverage, proportion of votes in favor of Democrats in 2020 presidential election, and education score.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.description.sponsorshipThe project was funded by the Emerging Infectious Disease Modelling Program (CANMOD) and Brock University. PR acknowledges an NSERC Discovery Grant.
dc.identifier.citationAghaeeyan, A., Ramazi, P., & Lewis, M. A. (2024). Revealing decision-making strategies of Americans in taking COVID-19 vaccination. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 86(6). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-024-01290-4
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-024-01290-4
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/22100
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherBulletin of Mathematical Biology
dc.subjectdecision-making strategies
dc.subjectimitation dynamics
dc.subjectbest-response dynamics
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectvaccine uptake
dc.titleRevealing decision-making strategies of Americans in taking COVID-19 vaccination
dc.typePostprint

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