People’s Willingness to Vaccinate Against COVID-19 Despite Their Safety Concerns: Twitter Poll Analysis

Fabian Eibensteiner   ^{1, 2 *} , MD ;   Valentin Ritschl   ^{3, 4 *} , MSc ;   Faisal A Nawaz   ⁵ , MBBSc ;   Sajjad S Fazel   ⁶ , MPH, PharmD ;   Christos Tsagkaris   ⁷ , MDc ;   Stefan Tino Kulnik   ⁸ , PhD ;   Rik Crutzen   ^{8, 9} , PhD ;   Elisabeth Klager   ² , MSc ;   Sabine Völkl-Kernstock   ² , PhD ;   Eva Schaden   ^{2, 10} , MD, PhD ;   Maria Kletecka-Pulker   ^{2, 11} , PhD ;   Harald Willschke   ^{2, 10} , MD, PhD ;   Atanas G Atanasov   ^{2, 12, 13} , PD, PhD

¹ Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

² Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

³ Section for Outcomes Research, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

⁴ Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Arthritis and Rehabilitation, Vienna, Austria

⁵ College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

⁶ Department of Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

⁷ Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

⁸ Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention, Salzburg, Austria

⁹ Department of Health Promotion, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

¹⁰ Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

¹¹ Institute for Ethics and Law in Medicine, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

¹² Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec, Poland

¹³ Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

*these authors contributed equally