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SUBMITTER: Sebhatu A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7474611 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sebhatu Abiel A Wennberg Karl K Arora-Jonsson Stefan S Lindberg Staffan I SI
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200811 35
We analyze the adoption of nonpharmaceutical interventions in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries during the early phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Given the complexity associated with pandemic decisions, governments are faced with the dilemma of how to act quickly when their core decision-making processes are based on deliberations balancing political considerations. Our findings show that, in times of severe crisis, governments ...[more]