Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, United States
Dr. Crooks is a Penn Medicine physician. His research interests includes Medicine. He is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals. He has successfully completed her Administrative responsibilities. Gary W. Crooks has authored of many research articles/books related to Medicine.
Research Article
Survey of Attitudes on Personal Protection Interventions against COVID-19 Including MMR Vaccination and Future Anti-COVID Vaccines
Author(s): Joseph D. Schulman*, James N. Cooper and Gary W. Crooks
An electronic survey was conducted in October, 2020 among individuals primarily age 60 and older regarding their
degree of confidence of deriving personal protection from 8 different anti-COVID interventions - social isolation,
lockdowns, avoiding restaurants, taking MMR vaccine, wearing masks when indoors with others, avoiding hotels,
avoiding commercial air travel, and using the first future specific anti-COVID vaccine. Responses were received from
135 persons from many different U.S. regions and 5 foreign countries. Respondents were generally individuals with
very high levels of education and personal achievement. Results demonstrated wide diversity of responses regarding
each of these interventions. None were strongly supported by a majority of respondents, but those receiving the
largest proportions of strong support were social isolation (41%), wearing masks.. View more»