Social media platforms shape behavioral response of young people to COVID-19 outbreak

The Medical News (Australia), 22 Dec - https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201222/Social-media-platforms-shape-behavioral-response-of-young-people-to-COVID-19-outbreak.aspx

7th Space (the Netherlands), 22 Dec - http://7thspace.com/headlines/1409762/young_people_regarded_covid_19_as_a_threat_to_the_older_generation_but_not_to_themselves.html

Yahoo Indonesia, 22 Dec - https://id.berita.yahoo.com/generasi-muda-anggap-covid-19-233000690.html

Liputan6 TV (Indonesia), 22 Dec- https://www.liputan6.com/tekno/read/4439639/generasi-muda-anggap-covid-19-bukan-ancaman-bagi-mereka

Medik Forum (Russia), 22 Dec - https://www.medikforum.ru/health/111240-molodezh-vidit-v-covid-19-ugrozu-dlya-starikov-no-ne-dlya-sebya.html

At the start of the pandemic, young Singaporeans regarded COVID-19 as a threat to the older generation but not to themselves, finds an NTU Singapore study. Young Singaporeans were more concerned about the dangers of fake news surrounding COVID-19 rather than the health threat posed by the disease and believed misinformation about the pandemic affected the older generation more than them. The study led by NTU Singapore's Assoc Prof Edson Tandoc Jr and researcher James Lee Chong Boi involved eight focus group discussions with 89 participants aged 21 to 27. NTU Assoc Prof Tandoc said: “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. 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. This is even more important during the initial phase of the pandemic, where credible information about the new virus was scarce.”