Volume 26, Number 7—July 2020
Dispatch
Community Responses during Early Phase of COVID-19 Epidemic, Hong Kong
Table 1
Risk perception of the community toward COVID-19 during the early phase of the COVID-19 epidemic in Hong Kong*
Characteristic | No. (%) respondents |
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Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Level 4 | Level 5 | |
Perceived susceptibility (assuming no preventive measure) | |||||
How likely you will be infected† | 776 (45) | 751 (44) | 160 (9) | 23 (1) | 5 (0) |
How likely your families will be infected† |
924 (54) |
660 (38) |
113 (7) |
14 (1) |
4 (0) |
Perceived severity | |||||
Seriousness of symptoms caused by SARS-CoV-2‡ | 1102 (64) | 569 (33) | 33 (2) | 7 (0) | 4 (0) |
Chance of having COVID-19 cured§ | 190 (11) | 552 (32) | 708 (41) | 239 (14) | 26 (2) |
Chance of survival if infected with COVID-19§ | 136 (8) | 476 (28) | 788 (46) | 290 (17) | 25 (1) |
*COVID-19, coronavirus disease; SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
†Level 1, very likely; level 2, likely; level 3, neutral; level 4, unlikely; level 5, very unlikely
‡Level 1, very serious; level 2, serious; level 3, neutral; level 4, not serious; level 5, not serious at all
§Level 1, very low; level 2, low; level 3, neutral; level 4, high; level 5, very high