Post by Nadica (She/Her) on Oct 18, 2024 4:12:24 GMT
Exploring predictors of COVID-19 precautionary behaviors during the initial rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in a predominately Hispanic sample - Published Sept 24, 2024
Highlights
• Precautionary behaviors were lower if primary language in household was Spanish.
• Testing positive for COVID-19 was inversely associated with precautionary behaviors.
• Healthcare practitioners were the most trusted source of COVID-19 information.
1. Introduction
After first emerging in an outbreak in Wuhan, China in 2019, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) quickly became a public health crisis of epic proportions. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as it was later called, was officially declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020 (Cucinotta and Vanelli, 2020). The first case reported in El Paso, Texas occurred on March 13, 2020, in a Hispanic male in his 40's (Montes and Dearman, 2020). By May 4, 2020, the virus had infected over 1000 individuals (9.2%); 13,000 cases were surpassed by July 31, 2020 (City of El Paso, 2020a) and 100,000 cases were reached by January 31, 2021 (City of El Paso, 2021). In early November of 2020, active cases surpassed 29,743 with rates of hospitalized patients reaching 1148 patients from Nov. 6–12, 2020 (City of El Paso, 2020b). Like other communities of color across the U.S., El Paso experienced a disproportionate impact of the pandemic.
Highlights
• Precautionary behaviors were lower if primary language in household was Spanish.
• Testing positive for COVID-19 was inversely associated with precautionary behaviors.
• Healthcare practitioners were the most trusted source of COVID-19 information.
1. Introduction
After first emerging in an outbreak in Wuhan, China in 2019, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) quickly became a public health crisis of epic proportions. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as it was later called, was officially declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020 (Cucinotta and Vanelli, 2020). The first case reported in El Paso, Texas occurred on March 13, 2020, in a Hispanic male in his 40's (Montes and Dearman, 2020). By May 4, 2020, the virus had infected over 1000 individuals (9.2%); 13,000 cases were surpassed by July 31, 2020 (City of El Paso, 2020a) and 100,000 cases were reached by January 31, 2021 (City of El Paso, 2021). In early November of 2020, active cases surpassed 29,743 with rates of hospitalized patients reaching 1148 patients from Nov. 6–12, 2020 (City of El Paso, 2020b). Like other communities of color across the U.S., El Paso experienced a disproportionate impact of the pandemic.