We’re all in this together. So how are we dealing with it?  Since mid-March, researchers at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy have been conducting a weekly tracking survey that’s revealing a lot about the impact of the pandemic on New Yorkers–and a few things about their impact on the pandemic. How do they view their own risk? How are they responding to the extreme measures of social distancing? (A term no one had heard of six weeks ago.) What’s been the effect on their jobs, their housing, their daily lives–to say nothing of their psyches? The tracking survey, a collaboration between CUNY SPH, Emerson College Polling and the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives, released its fifth survey this week. The survey’s lead researcher, Dr. Scott Ratzan, joins the CUNYcast to talk about the most significant and surprising results–and how they might inform efforts to fight the spread of this pandemic and maybe help prevent future ones.

 

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About the CUNY SPH tracking survey

Full weekly survey results: Week 1  |  Week 2  |  Week 3  |  Week 4  |  Week 5

CUNY SUM Weekly Takeaways

Week 1: New Yorkers think they’re at very low risk

Week 2: Job loss hits the LatinX community hardest

Week 3: Panicked New Yorkers say government isn’t doing enough about COVID-19

Week 4: New Yorkers hopeless about future as food access wanes

Week 5: 1 in 3 New Yorkers are unable to pay their rent due to COVID-19 job loss

About Dr. Scott Ratzan