For young people, Covid spells more threat for parents than themselves

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During the early stages of Covid-19 pandemic, young people thought the deadly disease is a threat to their parents and the elderly but not to themselves, new research shows. The young adults also felt that Covid falsehoods affected their parents and older relatives more than themselves. Many of these instances of information sharing were facilitated by messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, said the researchers from NTU in Singapore. “An important consideration from these findings is how to make young people who think they are not prone to COVID-19 to be still engaging in proactive behaviours against the virus,” said Assoc Prof Edson Tandoc Jr. “Studying initial public reaction towards a health crisis like the Covid-19 pandemic could guide practitioners and social policy makers on how to handle the outbreak in the long term”. This is even more important during the initial phase of the pandemic, where credible information about the new virus was scarce.