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Mainz (dpa / lrs) - An increasing willingness to vaccinate against the coronavirus and pent-up demand in compliance with the actually accepted distance and hygiene rules: These are two interim results from a large-scale pandemic study by the University of Mainz, which its head Professor Philipp Wild on Friday presented in Mainz.
The willingness to vaccinate has increased significantly in the past four months - to around 85 percent.
When it comes to the distance, 47.5 percent stated that they would almost always keep it - 90.7 percent when wearing mouth-nose protection.
The results are based on responses and data from up to 5,466 people aged 44 to 84 years.
Since October 2020, research teams from the University of Medicine have been investigating in one of the largest population studies in Germany how the corona pandemic and the measures taken affect the health of around 10,000 people in Rheinhessen.
Slightly over half of the respondents were in the home office, but only 16 percent exclusively.
The net income fell on average in about one in ten despite the economic aid.
"That can be dramatic in individual cases," said Science Minister Konrad Wolf (SPD).
"We have to focus on this ten percent."
At the same time, net income rose by 14 percent.
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The study notes that the self-assessment shows that the population is physically and mentally stressed.
"So far, however, the lockdown does not seem to have a strong effect on fears and sadness."
According to the interim results, the pandemic also has an impact on health care with potentially negative long-term consequences: at least one doctor's appointment has been postponed in every fourth, about the same number of times on the initiative of the patient and the practitioner.
According to the study, a minority of the respondents of a good four percent show a strong affection for conspiracies in the pandemic.
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