From breaking quarantine rules to not telling the truth about vaccination status, the findings of a University of Utah survey have concerning implications for the success of COVID prevention strategies. – via healthing_ca healthing healthnews
“COVID-19 safety measures can certainly be burdensome, but they work,” Andrea Gurmankin Levy, professor of social sciences at Middlesex Community College in Connecticut,
Of the respondents, 721 — 42 per cent — reported that they had been dishonest about their COVID-19 status or failed to follow public health measures. The most common behaviours were breaking quarantine rules, telling someone they were with or about to visit that they were taking more COVID-19 precautions than they were, saying they were vaccinated when they weren’t, and not revealing that they might have had, or knew that they had, COVID-19 when going into a doctor’s office.
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