Covid-19: Individual action more important than government action


Chairs in the US Pentagon briefing room are set far apart based on social-distancing protocols, to try to stem the spread of Covid-19. — Reuters

How individuals respond to government advice on preventing the spread of Covid-19 will be at least as important, if not more so, than government action.

This is according to a commentary published in The Lancet journal on March 9 (2020) from researchers at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, and Utrecht University and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands.

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