Fig 1.
Notes: The initial sample of 57,621 respondents is obtained by eliminating those individuals who declare themselves to be older than 100 or who have missing age information.
Fig 2.
Notes: the graph shows the time-trend of the vaccine hesitancy during the period from 12 February 2021 to 28 Marrh 2021 The blue dashed line represents the moment of the AstraZeneca controversy, coinciding with 11 March 2021, while the green dashed line represents the date when the AstraZeneca vaccine was suspended across a number of countries (16 March 2021).
Fig 3.
Google trends in the search of “AstraZeneca vaccine” and “thrombosis”.
Notes: the graph presents the mean interest for two keywords, "thrombosis" and "AstraZeneca vaccine", during the period from 1 February 2021 to 21 March 2021. Search volumes for these keywords have been retrieved from Google Trends in seven languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polisch and Danish.
Fig 4.
Time-trend in Trust in a) Government b) The EU c) Pharmaceutical Companies and d) Healthcare Systems.
Notes: the graphs show the time trend of four trust measures (trust in government (a), trust in EU (b), trust in pharmaceutical firms (c), trust in the healthcare system (d)) during the period from 12 February 2021 to 28 March 2021. The blue dashed lines represent the moment of the AstraZeneca controversy, coinciding with 11 March 2021, while the green dashed lines represent the date when the AstraZeneca vaccine was suspended across a number of countries (16 March 2021).
Table 1.
Vaccine hesitancy trend results.
Fig 5.
Linear prediction vaccine hesitancy.
Notes: the graph presents the linear prediction of vaccine hesitancy. The red dashed line coincides with the date of the AstraZeneca controversy (11 March 2021).
Table 2.
Differences between treated and control group.
Table 3.
DID results.