{"id":1059064,"date":"2021-09-21T10:52:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T15:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1059064"},"modified":"2021-09-22T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T16:48:29","slug":"new-poll-many-still-unwilling-to-get-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1059064","title":{"rendered":"New poll: many still unwilling to get vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER — If a recent poll is any indication, Texas has a long way to go before it reaches herd immunity. More than 60,000 Texans have died from COVID since the pandemic began, yet many Texans are still unwilling to get a vaccine. A new poll by the Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler indicates about 1 in 4 Texans say their either won’t get vaccinated or are unlikely to. 18% say they will definitely not take the shot. Another 6% say it’s unlikely. 9% of those surveyed say they probably will get around to getting vaccinated. 7% say they definitely will. Over 1,100 people were surveyed for the poll. Close to 60% of eligible Texans are already fully vaccinated. Johns Hopkins says 70 percent of the population must be vaccinated to reach herd immunity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER — If a recent poll is any indication, Texas has a long way to go before it reaches herd immunity. More than 60,000 Texans have died from COVID since the pandemic began, yet many Texans are still unwilling to get a vaccine. A new poll by the Dallas Morning News and the University of … Continue reading New poll: many still unwilling to get vaccinated<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1059068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/uttylerlogo-2-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"New poll: many still unwilling to get vaccinated","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 17:01:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/uttylerlogo-2-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"New poll: many still unwilling to get vaccinated","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059066,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059064\/revisions\/1059066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1059068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}