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is the (which was not peer-reviewed) The copyright holder for this preprint . respond moderately or very likely that COVID-19 will cause a national public health crisis and 1 8 8 black bars are the percent who respond moderately or very concerned that about contracting 1 8 9 COVID-19 from attending campus events. Public announcements occurred after daily study 1 9 0 hours, which ended by 2 PM central. Information sources: Centers for Disease Control and (binary version), and National, not Local over the experimental timeframe. National Likelihood 1 9 5 increased steadily through the study period, though even on the final day of the study, more than 1 9 6 10% of participants did not agree that a national crisis was likely. National Likelihood was 1 9 7 statistically greater than the first day of the study from March 9 to March 12, i.e., the entire Questions: (1) moderately or very likely that COVID-19 will cause a national public health crisis covariates. **, * denotes a statistical difference of the value on this date from the value for the 2 0 8 same variable on the first day of the study at the 5% and 10% level as determined by regression ( Table 2 ) that controls for personal and experimental factors. the United State and globally and expected more cases to be detected across the country, including more instances of person-to-person spread in more states [20] . Local Vulnerability cases increased more than 7-fold across the United States and participants' perceived National Likelihood increasd about 20 percent points. Local Vulnerability featured marginally significant 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.