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ArticleFrontiers in health services2025

COVID-19 vaccine uptake at six months post vaccine availability in Central Texas: an observational study disentangling the moveable middle.

John R Litaker, Carlos Lopez Bray, Naomi Tamez, Wesley Durkalski, Richard Taylor

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Article in Frontiers in health services, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

John R LitakerHealth Scientist and Consultant, The Litaker Group, LLC, Austin, TX, United States.
Carlos Lopez BrayResearch Associate, Sendero Health Plans, Austin, TX, United States.
Naomi TamezResearch Associate, Sendero Health Plans, Austin, TX, United States.
Wesley DurkalskiChief Executive Officer Emeritus, Sendero Health Plans, Austin, TX, United States.
Richard TaylorClinical Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Vaccine hesitancy is a multifactorial construct that posits vaccine uptake is based on person, place, time, and vaccine type. This study sought to identify individuals at about the six-month mark of COVID-19 vaccine availability in Central Texas to determine if they were vaccine acceptors, vaccine refusers, or in the moveable middle using the COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake Behavioral Science Task Force framework developed for the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and to disentangle individuals in the moveable middle to either vaccine acceptors or vaccine refusers. Methods: An online survey was distributed to individuals with Affordable Care Act insurance to assess: (1) COVID-19 vaccine uptake; and (2) plans to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine for those who had not yet received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The study period was June 27, 2021, through July 13, 2021. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected. Results: 900 individuals participated in this study. The point prevalence of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and refusal was 94.9% ( Conclusions: Real-world evidence at the time of a public health emergency can be used to determine point prevalence of vaccine uptake to stratify individuals as vaccine acceptors, vaccine refusers, or the moveable middle. Such evidence can be used to support health policy and planning during a public health emergency.

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Affordable Care ActCOVID-19moveable middlepublic health emergencySendero Health Plansvaccine acceptorsvaccine refusersvaccine uptake

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