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is the (which was not peer-reviewed) The copyright holder for this preprint .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 we provide some insights into how participants drawn from one community in Louisiana were 3 8 0 perceiving the national and local implications of the public health crisis that was unfolding We find that perceptions during this critical time increased steadily and rapidly such that 3 8 4 nearly 90 percent of participants agreed that it was likely that COVID-19 would become a 3 8 5 national public health crisis by the final day of our study, which corresponded with the day that Louisiana declared a public health emergency. However, participants' views of their personal 3 8 7 vulnerability to contracting the virus from attending local events increased more slowly and, only 3 8 8 . 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.