Correlation and partial correlation between willingness to take vaccine and change in trust, controlling for having previously contracted COVID-19, age, sex, educational attainment, religiosity and political inclination.

Reported figures in the upper panel are raw Spearman Rank correlations. In the lower panel they are partial Spearman’s rho values, controlling for the other variables. Values in bold are significant at P<0.05, N = 1987. Scoring system as follows: COVID-19 recorded as: never have been infected (0), history of infection, either confirmed by a test, a professional worker or by their own suspicions (1); respondent age was recorded directly as the numerical value; sex was scored with a binomial system (0 = males, 1 = females); educational attainment recorded as degree level (+2), non-degree level (+1) or no qualification (0); religiosity recorded as: religious and practising (+2), religious but not practising (+1), non-religious (0). Politics is scored from -1 to +1, more positive implying more right wing based on 10 attitudinal questions (Methods).