Table 2.
Sources of Information About COVID-19 and Confidence in the Sources
| Information Sources | Amount of Information “Quite a Bit “or “Very Much” |
Confidence in the Information “Quite a Bit “or “Very Much” |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall (n = 113) | Age: 20–44 (n = 65) | Age: 45–69 (n = 48) | Overall (n = 113) | Age: 20–44 (n = 65) | Age: 45–69 (n = 48) | |
| Internet | 84% | 89% | 77% | 32% | 31% | 33% |
| 80% | 75% | 85% | 42% | 46% | 36% | |
| Family and friends | 56% | 57% | 54% | 50% | 52% | 48% |
| Physicians | 54% | 57% | 50% | 90% | 89% | 92% |
| Television | 51% | 43% | 63% | 75% | 72% | 79% |
| Nurses | 50% | 54% | 44% | 88% | 88% | 88% |
| Radio | 33% | 34% | 31% | 54% | 55% | 52% |
| 31% | 38% | 21% | 32% | 35% | 27% | |