{"id":1407,"date":"2022-11-11T11:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:21:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:21:35","slug":"i-didnt-think-covid-19-was-real-why-40-misled-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/11\/11\/i-didnt-think-covid-19-was-real-why-40-misled-during-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I Didn&#8217;t Think COVID-19 Was Real&#8217;: Why 40% Misled During the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/publichealth\/101151\">MedPageToday<\/a>) Two in five Americans say they either misled others about their COVID-19 infection or vaccination status, or didn&#8217;t follow pandemic-related public health measures, a new study indicated. In a survey involving over 1,700 respondents, 41.6% suggested they either misrepresented and\/or did not adhere to at least one of nine survey items, most commonly 24.3% saying they were taking more precautions than they really were and 22.5% who said they broke quarantines, reported Andrea Levy, PhD, MBE, of Middlesex Community College in Middletown, Connecticut, and colleagues.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MedPageToday) Two in five Americans say they either misled others about their COVID-19 infection or vaccination status, or didn&#8217;t follow pandemic-related public health measures, a new study indicated. In a survey involving over 1,700 respondents, 41.6% suggested they either misrepresented and\/or did not adhere to at least one of nine survey items, most commonly 24.3% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}