COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptability Among US Firefighters and Emergency Medical Services Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study

Alberto J Caban-Martinez1, Carlos A Silvera, Katerina M Santiago

  • 1Department of Public Health Sciences (Dr Caban-Martinez, Mr Silvera, Ms Santiago, Ms Feliciano); Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (Dr Caban-Martinez), University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (Ms Santiago); Community, Environment & Policy Department, University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Tucson, Arizona (Dr Burgess); Department of Health and Human Physiological Sciences, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs (Dr Smith); Center for Fire, Rescue and EMS Health Research, National Development & Research Institutes, Inc., New York (Dr Jahnke), New York; Underwriters Laboratories Inc., Firefighter Safety Research Institute, Columbia, Maryland (Dr Horn); Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey (Dr Graber).

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