1 in 5 Americans fears getting monkeypox, but many know little about it
As COVID cases surge across the United States dominated by a highly transmissible subvariant, the public has voiced concern about the new health threat of monkeypox, according to a new Annenberg Public Policy Center survey.
While 1 in 3 Americans worry about getting COVID-19 in the next three months, according to the July survey, nearly 1 in 5 are concerned about contracting monkeypox, a disease endemic in parts of Africa whose spread to 75 countries across the globe led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a global health emergency on July 23, days after the survey was completed.
The nationally representative panel of 1,580 U.S. adults surveyed by SSRS for the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania from July 12-18, 2022, was the seventh wave of an Annenberg Science Knowledge (ASK) survey whose respondents were first empaneled in April 2021. The margin of sampling error is ± 3.3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
The survey answers such questions as: How worried is the public about becoming infected with COVID-19 or monkeypox? Does the public possess basic knowledge about monkeypox? And how widespread is misinformation about monkeypox?
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