COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Factors Associated With Being Unvaccinated Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Other Sexual Identities (LGBTQ+) New Yorkers

Andrea Low; Connor Wright; Joey Platt; Christiana Chang; Joanne E Mantell; Emily Romero; David Hoos; Sharon Mannheimer; Abigail Greenleaf; Delivette Castor; Wafaa M El-Sadr

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofac260

COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Factors Associated With Being Unvaccinated Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Other Sexual Identities (LGBTQ+) New Yorkers

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022 May 20;9(7):ofac260. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofac260. eCollection 2022 Jul.

Affiliations

¹ ICAP at Columbia, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA.
² Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA.

Abstract

Routine data on vaccine uptake are not disaggregated by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual identities (LGBTQ+) populations, despite higher risk of infection and severe disease. We found comparable vaccination uptake patterns among 1032 LGBTQ+ New Yorkers and the general population. We identified critical socioeconomic factors that were associated with vaccine hesitancy in this economically vulnerable population.

Keywords: COVID-19; LGBTQ+; online survey; socioeconomic impact; vaccine hesitancy.