Publication date: Oct 01, 2025
The intersections of religion and vaccination became visible early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, initial pandemic data reporting associations between religiosity and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is nearly 5 years old and has methodologic limitations. The aim of this study was to examine the associations between religious service attendance, COVID-19 attitudes, and COVID-19 vaccination at the midpoint of the COVID-19 public health emergency. A survey of Vaccine Safety Datalink members, purposefully sampled by race, ethnicity, language, and pregnancy status (N=2,856), was administered from November 2022 through February 2023. Data were analyzed through weighting and multivariable logistic regression. Overall, 960 people (33%) responded; 22. 8% (95% CI=15. 2%, 30. 3%) identified as Catholic, and 21. 7% (95% CI=14. 6%, 28. 9%) identified as just Christian. Overall, 28. 1% (95% CI=19. 4%, 36. 8%) reported never attending services, whereas 19. 0% (95% CI=12. 3%, 25. 7%) attended weekly or more often. Compared with never attending services, religious service attendance weekly or more often was associated with increasing bivalent COVID-19 Omicron booster vaccine hesitancy (p
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Catholic | COVID-19 |
| February | religion |
| Pandemic | religious service attendance |
| Vaccination | vaccine |
| vaccine hesitancy |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 |
| disease | MESH | emergency |
| disease | MESH | Long Covid |