We still feel anxious after more than 12 months of Covid-19 pandemic

The team of Havas Intelligence researchers (Havas Media Group) in the sixth wave of the Koronabus study summarized the changes in consumer and shopping habits of Poles one year after the pandemic was announced, and also examined the Poles' approach to vaccination, the pandemic, related myths and concerns about the future.

After 12 months in a pandemic, almost 70 percent of respondents still feel concerned about the situation related to the coronavirus. As in March last year, more than half of Poles declared that both their quality of life and mental state has deteriorated compared to the time before the pandemic. The respondents more often than before the pandemic feel such emotions as irritation, fatigue, and anger, and similarly to last year's March and April, they feel. Poles are primarily concerned about the efficiency of the health service (87 percent) and the health of themselves and their relatives (82 percent). Since the previous year, the respondents' concern about distance learning in schools and universities (71 percent) and the political situation (72 percent) has increased.

After nearly 13 months in a pandemic, 8 percent of Poles declare that they have already passed Covid-19. One in five respondents believes that the disease is over, but did not confirm their assumptions with the test. The use of antigen tests available in stores, which allows checking the presence of antibodies, is not popular among Poles – so far only 5 percent of respondents have used them, and only 6 percent plan to buy them in the future. As many as 15 percent of Poles claim that they have already been vaccinated against Covid-19, in the group most at risk of severe disease (55+ years) it is 24 percent. Over one-third (35 percent) declared that they plan to vaccinate themselves with every available preparation, but as many as one in four Poles wants to use vaccination only if they can choose the vaccine producer themselves.

(WBJ)