[samch]

This is a very good and important point. In a good year, if we can convince 40% of the eligible population to get a flu shot, imagine the challenge to get the >= 60% coverage needed to confer herd immunity. Just having a good, safe vaccine available isn’t enough. We have to convince an unusually large number (compared to influenza) of people to get vaccinated, and I worry about how hard that will be.

[dragonwriter]

Vaccines required by workplaces or schools have higher compliance with the recommendations than The flu vaccine. COVID-19 vaccine could well be legally required at all schools, and potentially even legally required at workplaces as a condition of opening (certainly healthcare and allied fields would likely require it the way they do TB vaccines; the larger the mandatory population, the less compliance you need in the voluntary population to reach any given overall target.)

[tacocataco]

It's my opinion that the coronavirus vaccine may be different.

Workplaces are going to require people to have the vaccine come back to work if only for liability reasons. I haven't run into workplaces requiring a flu shot and I've worked food service my whole life.