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How different countries are reacting to the COVID-19 risk and their governments’ responses

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At the end of last week we collected data from 700 people in each of the UK and US on how they were responding to the risk of the coronavirus, and their governments’ reactions.

Over the weekend, we’ve collected the same data from more countries: Australia, Mexico, Spain, Germany and Italy (with the same caveats about the sampling — see footnote).

The comparisons make fascinating reading. Perhaps the most striking thing is the similarities across countries (with Mexico as the most different), but there are also some subtle differences hidden in there…

https://medium.com/wintoncentre/how-different-countries-are-reacting-to-the-covid-19-risk-and-their-governments-responses-63e35f979111?source=friends_link&sk=6c0df5fd780bd6c684e9404ca3afa649