Virus: Someone and Acs President

virus: Knowing the someone else' may for some reinforce the idea that it is happening to someone else and not you, according to CTV. Thirty-one per cent of visible minorities said they know someone that had been diagnosed with COVID-19 compared to 23.6 per cent of respondents who identified as Caucasians. Perceptions about the impact of the virus are affected by the extent to which we know someone with the virus, wrote ACS President Jack Jedwab. CANADA Across the country, the percentage of Canadians who reported to personally know someone diagnosed with the virus increased sixfold within two months. Respondents born outside of Canada and immigrants who have been established in the country for 21 years or more were the least likely groups to know someone who has been diagnosed with the virus. On March 23, four per cent of Canadians participating in the Leger poll confirmed they know someone diagnosed with COVID-19, whereas the number spiked to 24 per cent by May 19. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.