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is the (which was not peer-reviewed) The copyright holder for this preprint . 1 7 next branching variable, with those participating on March 10 th -12 th being sorted based on 2 7 6 whether they reported income less than $15,000 with the proportion in that lowest income group 2 7 7 expressing Local Vulnerability being twice as high. For those attending March 9 or earlier, those 2 7 8 randomly assigned to receive compostable plates were 72% more likely to express Local 2 7 9 Vulnerability than those randomly assigned to other treatments. Among those identifying with groups other than white, non-Hispanic, self-reported 2 8 1 recycling frequency was the next classification variable, with those reporting that they never food waste information on any date were also in a branch with high Local Vulnerability as were 2 8 4 those not receiving food waste information so long as it was on March 12 th , the final day of the As Poletti et al. [22] noted, the spread of epidemics can be dramatically delayed or population. Our analysis suggests that for LSU students, staff and faculty participating in a participants thought a national public health crisis from COVID-19 was moderately or very 2 9 5 likely even on March 3, the first day of our data collection, a date upon which the number of cases nationally was reported to be 80 [14] . Nine days later, when the number of reported 2 9 7 national cases exceeded 1600 [14] , nearly 90% of participants displayed National Likelihood, 2 9 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.