Abstract
ObjectiveColombia designed and adopted a vaccination plan against COVID-19 that will immunise 35 million people. The study aim was to detect the level of willingness to accept vaccination against COVID-19. MethodsA telephone survey of 11,721 people aged 80 and over, affiliated with a health insurer, was carried out. The respondents were the affiliates or their relatives or caregivers. ResultsThe average age was 85.0 years (SD: 4.5), with no differences between sexes; 3344 (28.5%) referred to a previous diagnostic test for COVID-19 and 73 were positive, giving an incidence of 622.8 per 100,000 people (95% CI: 491–778). Regarding attitude to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2, 1/4 respondents refrained from giving an opinion or were neutral. When the respondent was a relative, the acceptance of the vaccine was 60.4% (95% CI: 59.5–61.3) with differences by gender: men 62.2% (95% CI: 60.8–63.6) and women 59.2 (95% CI: 58.0–60.3), P<.05. When the respondent was the potential recipient of the vaccine, the acceptance of the vaccine was 61.7% (95% CI: 59.4–64.0) and this also differed by gender: 70.2% in men (95% CI: 66, 9–73.5) and 55.1% in women (95% CI: 52.0–58.3), P<.05. ConclusionThe relatively low acceptance of vaccination against COVID-19 in Colombia poses significant challenges to achieve herd immunity that would allow control of the pandemic.
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