Knowledge and behaviors toward COVID-19 among U.S. residents during the early days of the pandemic

John M. Clements

The second part of the survey included 12 questions that were adapted from Zhong et al 14 to measure knowledge about COVID-19, including clinical characteristics, transmission, and prevention and control. The knowledge questions were scored with one point for each correct question and an aggregate score calculated (range 0 to 12), with higher scores indicating more knowledge about COVID-19. Three additional questions were asked to determine participation in specific behaviors related to recommendations from CDC and/or NIH including whether participants had spent more money than usual in the last two weeks on cleaning supplies, personal hygiene products, and food (a proxy measure of hoarding), whether they had gone to . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.