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is the (which was not peer-reviewed) The copyright holder for this preprint .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 University classes, =0 otherwise), household income, race, health insurance status, recycling the study (e.g., March 3, March 4, etc.) is also controlled in all analyses. Descriptive statistics 1 4 2 for the variables appear in Table 1 . To model the Likert-scale response to the two COVID-19 perception questions, an 1 4 4 ordered logit regression model is estimated with the aforementioned explanatory variables. The improvement measure is used as the splitting criteria [13] . Three participants are omitted from 1 4 8 several analyses because of item non-response on at least one variable, leaving an effective 1 4 9 sample size of 353. Statistical significance was set at the 5% level with results at the 10% level 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.