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Study the role of hubris in nations’ COVID-19 response

Many countries that see themselves as distinctive have handled the pandemic badly.
  1. Martha Lincoln

    1. Martha Lincoln is a cultural and medical anthropologist and assistant professor at San Francisco State University, California.

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As an anthropologist who has studied disease outbreaks in Vietnam, I’ve been moved by the contrast between the experience of COVID-19 there and in the United States. By late April, my friends in Hanoi were posting pictures of celebrations and joyfully announcing “Social distancing is over!” I’m relieved that infection rates in Vietnam remain low, but their posts seem to come from a parallel universe as I and my family and friends in the United States continue to shelter in place.

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Nature 585, 325 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02596-8

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