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Covid-19: did higher trust societies fare better?

Covid-19: did higher trust societies fare better?

Social trust—between governments and people and between individuals—and trust in science were proposed as prerequisites for tackling covid. Others suggested less democratic societies were more able to impose strict rules stopping the virus. These propositions were tested for a group of mainly advanced countries. The dependent variable is cumulated deaths …