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What did the data show about high trust versus low trust countries?

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Drawn from Lutz Finger's Forbes column, LinkedIn writing, and Cornell teaching. Sources are cited inline so you can read the originals.

High trust countries vaccinate more, and the gap widens.

We plotted a historical trend of vaccine uptake delineated into high and low trust countries. The plot shows clearly that high trust countries have a higher mean vaccine uptake over low trust countries, with the gap widening over time. We regressed vaccine uptake as of April 18, 2021 with trust in EU institutions. A positive coefficient for trust in EU institutions along with a p-value of less than 0.05 clearly indicates a statistically positive relationship.

Get Vaccinated? How Trust In Institutions Determines COVID Vaccination Rates In The EU · Forbes


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