The Critical Importance of Human Behavior in Our Response to COVID-19
The challenge of employing human behavior to combat a crisis of this magnitude is that behavior is often unreliable and unsustainable.
During a White House briefing in late March, 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx, the Coronavirus Response Coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, reminded the public of the critical importance of individual and collective behaviors to change the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. She said,
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“It’s communities that will do this. There’s no magic bullet. There’s no magic vaccine or therapy. It’s just behaviors. Each of our behaviors translating into something that changes the course of this viral pandemic over the next 30 days.”
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More than two months later, despite tireless, ongoing efforts, there is still no magic vaccine or therapy. We continue to depend on human behavior to contain the spread of the virus. And, according to experts, we will do so for the coming months (or longer) until a vaccine has been tested and approved.
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