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Course: Protective Behaviors Against COVID-19 by Individual Vaccination Status in 12 Countries During the Pandemic

CME Credits: 1.00

Released: 2021-10-26

The eagerly awaited onset of vaccination programs against COVID-19, along with people’s urge to return to “normal life,” has prompted concerns that individuals who were vaccinated would reduce their protective behaviors faster than recommended., Whereas worries about risk compensation have proven unfounded in some preventive medicine contexts (eg, human papillomavirus vaccination), signs of riskier conduct among the treated have appeared in others (eg, individuals who use HIV preexposure prophylaxis). Based on representative samples of 12 countries in various stages of immunization programs, this study compared the self-reported protective behaviors of individuals who had received 0, 1, or 2 COVID-19 vaccine doses. We assessed the period February 23 to June 1, 2021, when, barring anecdotal exceptions, governments had yet to exempt individuals who had been vaccinated from COVID-19 protective-behavior policies.


Educational Objective
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