This coronavirus vaccine statistic is pretty scary

• The latest Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index reveals that a shocking number of Americans don't intend to take the first-generation coronavirus vaccine, which has all sorts of implications for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, among other things.
• The index reveals that skepticism around a COVID-19 vaccine is also pretty bipartisan, with the numbers of both Democrats and Republicans who say they'd take the first coronavirus vaccine continuing to fall.
• Around half of Americans also expect the vaccine to be either offered for free or at a very minor cost.

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Don't set your hopes too high regarding the first coronavirus vaccine, which could start arriving in as soon as a month or two from now. That's according to Dale Fisher, a professor of infectious diseases at the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, who told CNBC this week that a vaccine is only going to help the situation once it arrives -- as opposed to definitely solving the crisis.

“It’s not going to be the fairytale (ending) everyone wants it to be, where we’ll have a 100% effective vaccine and 100% of people will take it, and they’ll all receive it over the course of a month and we can go back to our way of life," Fisher warned. This might help explain why the share of Americans who say they're willing to get a dose of the first COVID-19 vaccine as soon as it arrives keeps falling, according to the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index which has been regularly tracking sentiment around a vaccine.

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