Fifty-five percent of pandemic-weary Big Apple residents have already applied for the at-home tests from the US government Web site, according to a survey of 2,500 respondents.
“I was shocked,” said Dr. Ayman El-Mohandes, dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health, to The Post.The poll is believed to be the first public survey in the US that measured how many people are ordering the rapid COVID at-home test kits.City workers hand out take-home Covid-19 test kits in lower Manhattan on December 23, 2021.Two-thirds of respondents who received a vaccine booster ordered the COVID test, according to the survey.
“It’s a shame that so many among us who are not vaccinated would be resistant to getting the COVID test,” he said. “They should be more willing to get tested to contain the virus, not less.”Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesIn January 2021, 80 percent of respondents reported they always wore a mask in public. In the recent survey, 72 percent said the same.
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