COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal and Delay among Adults in Italy: Evidence from the OBVIOUS Project, a National Survey in Italy
, Angelo Capodici 1, Giusy La Fauci 1,*, Marco Montalti 1, Aurelia Salussolia 1, Giorgia Soldà 1, Zeno Di Valerio 1, Francesca Scognamiglio 1, Maria Pia Fantini 1, Julie Leask 2,3, Heidi J. Larson 4,5, Stefania Profeti 6, Federico Toth 6, Jacopo Lenzi 1 and on behalf of the other researchers of the OBVIOUS BOARD †Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
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Reviewer 2 Report
Even if this paper is based on a cross-sectional, non-representative sample and online paid survey, I found it extremely informative, well written, with an open-minded discussion.
This paper is excellent!
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Response: Thank you for your kind and enthusiastic comment. We are glad to know you appreciated our work.
Reviewer 3 Report
There was one surprising finding – for me – here, namely that women were more hesitant to get vaccinated. I recalled that women were more accepting of vaccines in Hungary. A quick search resulted in ambiguous results. Two published surveys are in alignment with the finding reported here: man accepts vaccines more readily.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-26824-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-021-12386-0
But a representative survey in Hungary showed that women were less hesitant to take the vaccine (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10865-022-00314-5). And actual vaccination data also show that more women are vaccinated than men (https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/10/7/1009).
On politics you might find the following article interesting: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/10/5/789
(I was not involved with any of the above publications)
I would avoid abbreviations as much as possible. Vaccine hesitation does not need to be abbreviated as VH.
Ref19: It now has volume and pages. 48(1):24-29
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
The authors have addressed all my comments satisfactorily. The article can be accepted for publication in its present form.
