How To Convince People To Get A COVID-19 Vaccine: An Opinion Dynamics Model for REUNS 2022

ABSTRACT

When COVID-19 Vaccines became first available, there were a lot of questions and uncertainty related to them [1]. In this paper, we aim to model the evolution of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy through an opinion dynamics model. We extend the model in [5] to general polygons and explore the parameter space. We compare our model with the real data available for Floyd County, Texas. Our findings imply that our model is good in predicting evolution of Vaccine Hesitancy in other counties. We also think that our model can be used to model and predict evolution of opinions on other topics. © 2022 IEEE.