Perceived vulnerability to COVID-19 infection from event attendance: Results from Louisiana, USA, two weeks preceding the national emergency declaration

Ran Li; Bingchen Yang; Jerrod Penn; Bailey Houghtaling; Juan Chen; Witoon Prinyawiwatkul; Brian Roe; Danyi Qi

is the (which was not peer-reviewed) The copyright holder for this preprint . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.01.20049742 doi: medRxiv preprint Figure 1 shows the national case count went from less than 100 on the first day of the 1 7 4 study (March 3) to more than 1600 cases by the last day of the study (black line). Louisiana crisis timeline. No cases were identified and reported in Louisiana until the second 1 7 7 week of the study (bars, Fig 1) and LSU communications stated that no cases had been identified 1 7 8 on campus [9] . However, a lack of testing in the United States and in Louisiana likely 1 7 9 underrepresented the prevalence of COVID-19 at the time [19] . . 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.