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. 2022 Aug 27;400(10353):657.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01532-X.

Trust made the difference for democracies in COVID-19

Thomas J Bollyky  1 , Olivia Angelino  2 , Simon Wigley  3 , Joseph L Dieleman  2
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Trust made the difference for democracies in COVID-19

Thomas J Bollyky et al. Lancet. .
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Adjusted SARS-CoV-2 infection rate given low and high levels of electoral democracy and trust in government, from Jan 1, 2020, to Sept 30, 2021 This figure shows adjusted infection rates based on the average observed association between infections and electoral democracy and trust in government during the specified time period. Adjusted infection rate reflects cumulative infections per capita that cannot be accounted for by seasonality, altitude, gross domestic product per capita, population density, and a proxy for pre-exposure to betacoronavirus. Low levels of a measure are defined as the 25th percentile of observed values; high levels are the 75th percentile. The heights of the bars are the median values with accompanying error bars representing 95% uncertainty intervals.
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