Prognosis
Keep Calm and Wash Your Hands: Britain’s Strategy to Beat Virus
- Government opts for more relaxed approach than other countries
- ‘Nudge’ unit models behavior to try to slow coronavirus spread
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While China quarantined 56 million people and the whole of Italy is on lock down to counter the spread of coronavirus, the U.K. is taking a radically different approach. Instead of keeping people inside their homes, Boris Johnson’s government is trying to get inside their heads.