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Queer People More Likely to Vaccinate Early, Embrace COVID Response, Data Show

John Ferrannini | The Bay Area Reporter

Gay and lesbian adults were more likely to take up COVID-19 vaccination early – and less likely to distrust the jabs, but nonetheless data collection has made statistics hard to come by, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The data was collected in the summer and fall of 2021, based on responses from 153,062 people for the National Immunization Survey Adult COVID Module.

Gay and lesbian adults reported higher vaccination coverage at that time – 85.4% – than did heterosexual adults – 76.3%.

On the gender identity question, 75.5% of people who identified as transgender or nonbinary were vaccinated, compared to 76.7% of those who said they were not transgender or nonbinary.

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