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There's going to have to be a major public education\acceptance campaign and advertising blitz eventually.

Check out Section 3 for the Results of analysis, but the existing public vaccination: -definitely, -probably, -hesitant, & -resitant stats for Australian on COVID aren't particularly inspiring.

(If you feel like being even more disappointed with your fellow man, check out the specific breakdown of factors that correlate strongest with Australian attitudes on vaccines generally (and to a COVID vaccine specifically) - you'll find it at Tables A.1 thru A.7 on the latter citation.)

• "Vaccine Efficacy Needed for a COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine to Prevent or Stop an Epidemic as the Sole Intervention", American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Volume 59, Issue 4, 2020, citable as "Bartsch et al, 2020"

"This study found that the vaccine has to have an efficacy of at least 70% to prevent an epidemic and of at least 80% to largely extinguish an epidemic without any other measures (e.g., social distancing)."

• "COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance: Correlates in a nationally representative longitudinal survey of the Australian population", (Preprint but from ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University)

"Those who reported more populist views were more likely to be resistant or hesitant (at high or low levels) and less likely to intend to get vaccinated. This pattern of results was also evident in terms of level of religiosity although this finding should be treated with caution as there was a higher level of uncertainty around the estimates (statistical significance was only at the 90% level). Similarly, those living in Victoria, with by far the highest numbers of COVID-19 infections in Australia in August 2020, were significantly less likely than Australians from other states to accept vaccination."

"In conclusion, given that over 75 per cent of the population are likely to need to be vaccinated with a highly effective vaccine to extinguish the epidemic (Bartsch et al., 2020) our findings that only 59 per cent of Australians will definitely get vaccinated is sobering and suggests that as noted by WHO (Hickler et al., 2020), proactive measures need to be adopted by countries to encourage vaccination in the community.
Our findings suggest that vaccine hesitancy, which accounts for a further significant proportion of the population, and can be addressed by public health messaging. However for a significant minority of the population with strongly held beliefs that are the likely drivers of vaccination intentions, alternative policy measures may well be needed to achieve sufficient vaccination coverage."