Growing efforts have been made to pool coronavirus data and control measures from countries and regions to compare the effectiveness of government policies. We examine whether these strategies can explain East Asia’s effective control of the COVID‐19 pandemic based on time‐series data with cross‐correlations between the Stringency Index and number of confirmed cases during the early period of outbreaks. We suggest that multidisciplinary empirical research in healthcare and social sciences, personality, and social psychology is needed for a clear understanding of how cultural values, social norms, and individual predispositions interact with policy to affect life‐saving behavioural changes in different societies.

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遏制和封锁政策对控制东亚 COVID-19 大流行的影响


人们越来越多地努力汇集各国和各地区的冠状病毒数据和控制措施，以比较政府政策的有效性。我们根据时间序列数据以及疫情早期严格指数与确诊病例数之间的互相关性，研究这些策略是否可以解释东亚对 COVID-19 大流行的有效控制。我们建议，需要在医疗保健和社会科学、人格和社会心理学方面进行多学科实证研究，以清楚地了解文化价值观、社会规范和个人倾向如何与政策相互作用，从而影响不同社会中拯救生命的行为变化。