Cognitive Dimensions in Community Response to the Free Vaccination Programs in Suppressing the Spread of Covid-19 in Sidoarjo Regency

Based on data on the positive cases of the Indonesian Covid-19 pandemic in the period March 2020 to March 2021, there were 1,290,790 people. Meanwhile, the distribution of positive cases in Sidoarjo Regency until March 2021 is 10,787 people. In order to suppress the increase in new positive cases and achieve communal immunity, the Indonesian government issued Presidential Regulation Number 99 of 2020 concerning Vaccine Procurement and Vaccination Implementation in the context of Combating the 2019 Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic (State Gazette of the Republic of Indonesia Year 2020 Number 227). Diplomacy is taking through the Minister of Foreign Affairs in order to secure the stock of vaccines available for the people of Indonesia. Through this policy, the government managed to secure 270 million doses of various brands of vaccines. Vaccine distribution will be carried out in several stages and will be distributed to district or city governments to be forward to health facilities in their area. Therefore, researchers are interested in taking the research title "Cognitive Dimensions in Community Response to the Free Vaccination Programs in Suppressing the Spread of COVID-19 in Sidoarjo Regency". This research is quantitative research using independent variables. They described based on data sourced from questionnaires. The research location is in the Sidoarjo Regency and has a population of 2,262,440 million people with a total sample of 100 incidental people.