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Volume 31, Number 12—December 2025

Dispatch

Healthcare Worker Attitudes and Perceptions toward Ebola Vaccine, United States, 2024

Rinki Goswami, Anthony Lo Piccolo, Rachel Miller, Maria Frank, Corri Levine, and Justin ChanComments to Author 
Author affiliation: New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA (R. Goswami, A. Lo Piccolo, J. Chan); NYC Health and Hospitals/Bellevue, New York (A. Lo Piccolo, J. Chan); Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Denver, Colorado, USA (R. Miller, M. Frank); University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA (C. Levine)

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Table 1

Characteristics of respondents to survey of healthcare worker attitudes and perceptions toward Ebola vaccine, United States, 2024

Characteristic Total no. (%), n = 66 No. (%) interested in receiving vaccine, n = 34 No. (%) not interested in receiving vaccine or unsure, n = 32 p value*
Age 0.437
18–29   5 (7.6) 2 (40.0) 3 (60.0)
30–39   22 (33.3) 12 (54.5) 10 (45.5)
40–49   20 (30.3) 11 (55.0) 9 (45.0)
50–59   16 (24.2) 9 (56.2) 7 (43.8)
>60  
3 (4.5)
 0
 3 (100.0)
Sex 0.745
F 42 (63.6) 21 (50.0) 21 (50.0)
M  
24 (36.4)
 13 (54.2)
 11 (45.8)
Profession 0.225
Clinical laboratory staff   16 (24.2) 5 (31.3) 11 (68.7)
Research laboratory staff 1 (1.5) 0 1 (100.0)
Nurse   18 (27.3) 12 (66.7) 6 (33.3)
Physician   28 (42.4) 15 (53.6) 13 (46.4)
Emergency medical technician
 3 (4.5)
 2 (66.7)
 1 (33.3)
Department 0.385
Emergency medicine   6 (9.1) 3 (50.0) 3 (50.0)
Critical care medicine   18 (27.2) 11 (61.1) 7 (38.9)
Hospital medicine   7 (10.6) 3 (42.9) 4 (57.1)
Infectious diseases   7 (10.6) 5 (71.4) 2 (28.6)
Pediatric critical care   7 (10.6) 5 (71.4) 2 (28.6)
Other   1 (1.5) 0 1 (100.0)
Unknown  
20 (30.3)
 7 (35.0)
 13 (65.0)
Have received Ebola vaccine education 0.463
Y   37 (56.1) 18 (48.6) 19 (51.4)
N   28 (42.4) 16 (57.1) 12 (42.9)
Prefer not to answer   1 (1.5) 0 1 (100.0)

*By using χ2 test.

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