{"id":8208,"date":"2020-08-20T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8208"},"modified":"2020-08-20T06:30:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:30:12","slug":"ignorance-about-covid-19-risk-is-nothing-short-of-stunning-research-report-says-huge-age-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8208","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance About Covid-19 Risk Is \u2018Nothing Short of Stunning,\u2019 Research Report Says; Huge Age Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wirepoints.org\/ignorance-about-covid-19-risk-is-nothing-short-of-stunning-research-report-says-huge-age-variance-wirepoints\/\">Mark Glennon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Americans have been \u201cblinded from science,\u201d according to a recent research report about their understanding of COVID-19. And it\u2019s not about the controversial aspects like treatments and lockdown policies. It\u2019s about ignorance of fundamental, undisputed facts on who is at risk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>A leading financial firm, Franklin Templeton, figured that people\u2019s behavioral response to the pandemic will play a crucial role in shaping the economic recovery, so they teamed up with Gallup, the polling outfit, to find out what people know and don\u2019t know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThese results are nothing short of stunning,\u201d concluded the firm. \u201cSix months into this pandemic, Americans still dramatically misunderstand the risk of dying from COVID-19.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>That\u2019s no exaggeration, and the implications go far beyond the economic behavior Franklin Templeton was interested in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Here is what they found:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>First, the Franklin Templeton-Gallup survey found that the general population has a little understanding how heavily the pandemic is focused on the older population. It is not broad-based. From the report:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\t\u2022\tOn average, Americans believe that people aged 55 and older account for just over half of total COVID-19 deaths; the actual figure is 92%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\t\u2022\tAmericans believe that people aged 44 and younger account for about 30% of total deaths; the actual figure is 2.7%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\t\u2022\tAmericans overestimate the risk of death from COVID-19 for people aged 24 and younger by a factor of 50; and they think the risk for people aged 65 and older is half of what it actually is (40% vs 80%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Glennon: Americans have been \u201cblinded from science,\u201d according to a recent research report about their understanding of COVID-19. And it\u2019s not about the controversial aspects like treatments and lockdown policies. It\u2019s about ignorance of fundamental, undisputed facts on who is at risk. A leading financial firm, Franklin Templeton, figured that people\u2019s behavioral response to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8209,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions\/8209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}