Trust in government actors and COVID-19 vaccination uptake among Hispanics and Latinos in the US

Although the federal government has made official recommendations to the public advocating vaccinations against COVID-19 various communities have decided against doing so. In this re-gard, various studies have indicated that trust in government to provide accurate information about vaccines during a pandemic are related to whether people get vaccinated. Various studies have investigated factors contributing to vaccine decision-making, but none specifically focus on Hispanic and Latinos in the United States. This study identifies factors associated with COVID-19 vaccination among Hispanics and Latinos using a nation-wide, phone-based survey. Using data generated by the Kaiser Family Foundation's COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor, collected in June 2021, a logistic regression on the decision to get vaccinated, trust in various governmental actors, in ad-dition to demographic variables such as age, race, employment status, parental status, employ-ment status, and income are observed to be significant in Hispanics' and Latinos' decision to be vaccinated against COVID-19. As a byproduct of these findings, recommendations for future re-search are provided that relate to expanding our understanding of these factors among different ethnicities of Latinos.