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Evaluation of the US governors' decision when to issue stay‐at‐home orders

from Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Evaluation of the US governors' decision when to issue stay‐at‐home orders Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice In the United States, the reluctance of the federal government to impose a national stay‐at‐home policy in wake of COVID‐19 pandemic has left the decision of how to achieve social distancing to individual state governors. We hypothesized that in the absence of formal guidelines, the decision to close a state reflects the classic Weber‐Fechner law of psychophysics – the amount by which a stimulus (such as number of cases or deaths) must increase in order to be noticed as a fraction of the intensity of that stimulus. READ MORE

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