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Young Adults Are Less Likely to Wear Masks, Take Other Measures Against COVID-19, CDC Survey Finds - msnNOW

Young Adults Are Less Likely to Wear Masks, Take Other Measures Against COVID-19, CDC Survey Finds - msnNOW

Young Adults Are Less Likely to Wear Masks, Take Other Measures Against COVID-19, CDC Survey Finds - msnNOW
Oct 28, 2020 34 secs

Younger adults, on the other hand, were the slowest to embrace the behaviors and continued to lag behind their older counterparts over the seven-week period that the survey was conducted.

The survey asked respondents whether they engage in any of 19 mitigation behaviors, six of which were analyzed in the agency’s published results:.

To be sure, the majority of respondents, including those in the youngest group, engaged in at least four behaviors over the survey time period, and only 6% from the entire sample reported one or fewer behaviors.

The lower prevalence of mitigation behaviors in younger adults “might contribute to the high incidence of confirmed COVID-19 cases” among that group, the CDC notes.

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