{"id":7496,"date":"2020-06-11T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7496"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:30:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:30:54","slug":"the-coronavirus-covid-19-fatality-risk-perception-of-us-adult-residents-in-march-and-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/11\/the-coronavirus-covid-19-fatality-risk-perception-of-us-adult-residents-in-march-and-april-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Fatality Risk Perception of US Adult Residents in March and April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Niepel\u00a0et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">compared the SARS-CoV-2 fatality risk perception of US adult residents in mid-March 2020 (N=1,182) and mid-April 2020 (N=953). About<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a067% reported lower perceived risk than the 1% benchmark<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and about 51%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0reported that their own odds of dying if infected were approximately one in ten thousand or lower<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, suggesting an underestimation of fatality risk compared to current epidemiological evidence. The authors suggest that low risk perception may predict poor adherence to health behaviors that reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission rates.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Niepel\u00a0et al. (June 10, 2020). The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Fatality Risk Perception of US Adult Residents in March and April 2020. British Journal of Health Psychology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/bjhp.12438\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/bjhp.12438<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niepel\u00a0et al.\u00a0compared the SARS-CoV-2 fatality risk perception of US adult residents in mid-March 2020 (N=1,182) and mid-April 2020 (N=953). About\u00a067% reported lower perceived risk than the 1% benchmark, and about 51%\u00a0reported that their own odds of dying if infected were approximately one in ten thousand or lower, suggesting an underestimation of fatality risk compared to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/11\/the-coronavirus-covid-19-fatality-risk-perception-of-us-adult-residents-in-march-and-april-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-7496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7497,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions\/7497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7496"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}