Knowledge About COVID-19 Among Adults in China: Cross-sectional Online Survey

Fengyun Yu   ^{1, 2 *} , BSc ;   Pascal Geldsetzer   ^{1, 3 *} , MD, ScD ;   Anne Meierkord   ⁴ , MD ;   Juntao Yang   ⁵ , PhD ;   Qiushi Chen   ⁶ , PhD ;   Lirui Jiao   ⁷ , BA ;   Nadeem E Abou-Arraj   ⁸ , MD ;   An Pan   ⁹ , PhD ;   Chen Wang   ^{10, 11, 12 *} , MD, PhD ;   Till Bärnighausen   ^{1, 10 *} , MD, ScD ;   Simiao Chen   ^{1, 10 *} , ScD

¹ Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

² Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

³ Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States

⁴ Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

⁵ State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

⁶ The Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States

⁷ Reed College, Portland, OR, United States

⁸ Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States

⁹ School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

¹⁰ Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

¹¹ National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases, Beijing, China

¹² Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center of Respiratory Medicine, China–Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

*these authors contributed equally