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October 21, 2020
Factors Associated With US Adults’ Likelihood of Accepting COVID-19 Vaccination
A survey conducted in July, 2020 among a convenience sample of 1,971 US adults reported that preferences related to a hypothetical COVID-19 vaccine were associated with vaccine attributes (e.g., vaccine efficacy, adverse effects, and protection duration) and political factors (e.g., US FDA approval process, national origin of vaccine, and endorsements). Willingness to receive a vaccination…
October 20, 2020
A Case-Control and Cohort Study to Determine the Relationship between Ethnic Background and Severe COVID-19
A case-control study determined that Black and multiracial people were three times as likely to be admitted to a hospital for COVID-19 treatment when compared to white people living in the same neighborhoods in London. Cases were defined as patients admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 and controls were drawn from an administrative database in…
Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19, by Age and Race and Ethnicity — United States, January 26–October 3, 2020
Two out of three excess deaths in the United States during the period of January through October were attributed to COVID-19. An estimated 299,028 excess deaths occurred and there were two peaks of deaths, occurring during the weeks ending April 11 and August 8. Adults aged 25-44 years and Hispanic/Latino persons saw the largest percentage…
October 16, 2020
How Confidence in Health Care Systems Affects Mobility and Compliance during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Levels of public confidence in the health care system were related to differences in compliance behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in a study of mobility measures across 38 European countries. Areas in which people had low levels of confidence in their health care system initially showed a faster response with respect to staying home. However,…
Race, Ethnicity, and Age Trends in Persons Who Died from COVID-19 — United States, May–August 2020
Among COVID-19–associated deaths reported to the US National Vital Statistics System from May to August, deaths in people over the age of 65 and members of minority racial and ethnic groups were disproportionately represented. Analysis of 114,411 COVID-19–associated deaths found that 51% were among non-Hispanic white individuals, 24% were among Hispanic or Latino individuals, and…
October 13, 2020
Stay-at-Home Orders and Firearms in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic Preventive Medicine.
Among the forty-three states and the District of Columbia that issued stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic, most considered federal firearm licensees to be essential businesses or made provisions for them to remain open in some capacity, while only four states and D.C. did not. The study found that there was an all-time high in…
October 12, 2020
COVID-19 and Excess All-Cause Mortality in the US and 18 Comparison Countries
The cumulative COVID-19 mortality in the US through September 19, 2020 of 60.3 per 100,000 people is comparable to other high-mortality countries like Spain (65 per 100,000), the UK (62.6 per 100,000) and Italy (59.1 per 100,000). However, the COVID-19 mortality in the US has remained high in the past four months, while the other…
Excess Deaths From COVID-19 and Other Causes, March-July 2020
Deaths from all causes in the US increased by 20% above the number expected between March 1 and August 1, 2020. An estimated 150,541 of these excess deaths (67%) were attributed to COVID-19. The 10 states with the highest per capita level of excess deaths were New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Arizona, Mississippi, Maryland,…
October 8, 2020
Don’t Dumb It down: The Effects of Jargon in COVID-19 Crisis Communication
An online survey experiment among workers contacted through the Amazon MTurk platform (n=393) found that science communication using technical jargon was more difficult for participants to process in low urgency situations, but that jargon did not substantially reduce processing in high urgency situations like COVID-19. The authors suggest that high motivation to process information may…
Substantial Decline in Use of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Following Introduction of COVID-19 Physical Distancing Restrictions in Australia
Overall, 42% of 847 gay and bisexual men participating in an online cohort study of men in Australia reported discontinuing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) due to COVID-19 restrictions, which coincided with a reduction in sexual activity. PrEP use in this cohort increased from 4.9% in 2015 to 47.2% in 2020. PrEP discontinuation was associated with…
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