| Sumario: | SARS‐CoV‐2 represents a direct threat to the population, with concerns for public health being cited as justification for a range of protective action recommendations and governmental policies. At the same time, the economic impacts associated with both experiencing COVID‐19 and/or its associated protective measures have featured prominently in debates of how the pandemic should be managed. While the widespread presence of COVID‐19 has produced large‐scale exposure to the pandemic, the wide variation in direct exposures to the virus, variations in individual and household vulnerability, as well as governmental approaches to managing the pandemic have resulted in wide variation in individual pandemic experiences. This study builds on existing research on threat perception by looking at two types of threat perceptions for COVID‐19: health concerns and economic concerns. Using survey data of adults in New York, Louisiana, and Washington states, this study explores people's level of concern for health and economic impacts to themselves and their associations with several pandemic‐related stressors. The results of this study demonstrate that reduced income during the pandemic was the only stressor that appeared to influence participants' COVID‐19 concerns across multiple analyses.
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