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Understanding Why People Are Social Distancing (or Not) in COVID-19
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Policy interventions and public health messaging have succeeded in persuading large swaths of the US population to stay home, but not everyone is doing so. In our national survey, we set out to ask a few questions: Why are people social distancing or not? What’s driving their actions? How can we target them to change behavior?