Link to the paper discussed in the article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00172-6/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journ

Link to the paper discussed in the article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00172-6/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... And the two key paragraphs in the article: > More unexpected was what the researchers found when they looked at the factors that predicted how many people got infected. Some of the obvious candidates — population density, G.D.P. per capita, and exposure to past coronaviruses — failed to predict much in the way of outcomes. But both trust in government and trust in fellow citizens proved potent. > This yields the paper’s most striking finding: Moving every country up to the 75th percentile in trust in government — that’s where Denmark sits — would have prevented 13 percent of global infections. Moving every country to the 75th percentile of trust in their fellow citizens — roughly South Korea’s level — would have prevented 40 percent of global infections.