{"id":9527,"date":"2025-12-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9527"},"modified":"2025-12-17T18:31:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:31:50","slug":"most-canadians-still-confident-in-vaccines-but-hesitancy-has-increased-poll-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/most-canadians-still-confident-in-vaccines-but-hesitancy-has-increased-poll-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Canadians still confident in vaccines, but hesitancy has increased, poll says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; A new poll says that about three-quarters of Canadian adults still have confidence in vaccines, but hesitancy has increased over the last five years. <\/p>\n<p>The survey conducted by Leger Healthcare and released on Tuesday says 74 per cent of respondents said they were either &#8220;very confident&#8221; (42 per cent) or &#8220;somewhat confident&#8221; (32 per cent) in the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>But about a quarter of respondents said they are less confident than they were before. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; A new poll says that about three-quarters of Canadian adults still have confidence in vaccines, but hesitancy has increased over the last five years. <\/p>\n<p>The survey conducted by Leger Healthcare and released on Tuesday says 74 per cent of respondents said they were either &#8220;very confident&#8221; (42 per cent) or &#8220;somewhat confident&#8221; (32 per cent) in the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>But about a quarter of respondents said they are less confident than they were before. <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/most-canadians-still-confident-in-vaccines-but-hesitancy-has-increased-poll-says\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Most Canadians still confident in vaccines, but hesitancy has increased, poll says<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,388,14,15],"class_list":["post-9527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-measles","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9529,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions\/9529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}