{"id":790,"date":"2020-05-15T11:25:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T05:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.potentialloops.org\/?p=790"},"modified":"2020-05-15T11:25:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T05:55:05","slug":"lack-of-covid-19-preparedness-in-line-with-previous-findings-economists-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialloops.org\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"Lack of COVID-19 preparedness in line with previous findings, economists find"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: May 14, 2020 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source 1: University of Wyoming<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source 2: www.sciencedaily.com <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary: The threat of a catastrophic pandemic in 2014 — the West African Ebola outbreak — did little to change the perception of US citizens regarding the importance of preparing for future outbreaks, say experts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The delayed response of U.S. policymakers to \nthe COVID-19 pandemic comes as no surprise to University of Wyoming \nProfessor Jason Shogren and several of his economist colleagues at other\n institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s because the threat of a catastrophic pandemic in 2014 — the \nWest African Ebola outbreak — did little to change the perception of \nU.S. citizens regarding the importance of preparing for future \noutbreaks, according to research conducted by Shogren and his \ncolleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that the U.S. was as unprepared \nas experts feared, given the responses to the Ebola scare in 2014,” the \neconomists wrote in an article that has been accepted by EcoHealth<\/em>,\n an international journal that addresses health and sustainability \nchallenges, including public health practices. “This lack of attention \nto pandemic threats is especially disturbing given the current COVID-19 \nand any potential future pandemics that may also have very high \ntransmission rates, including transmission before individuals become \nsymptomatic.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joining Shogren in the research were fellow UW economists David \nAadland, David Finnoff and Alexandre Skiba, along with Jamison Pike and \nPeter Saszak, of the Ecohealth Alliance; and Kip Viscusi, from \nVanderbilt University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before and after the 2014 Ebola outbreak — which killed thousands of\n people in West Africa, harmed millions of people in that region and \ngenerated significant media coverage in the United States — the \nresearchers surveyed U.S. citizens to see if their concerns about a \npandemic threat had increased, relative to risks from environmental \ndisasters and terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were surprised to find relative complacency regarding the threat\n of a pandemic among the hundreds of people surveyed in 2015. The \nfindings were unexpected because long-standing evidence has shown that \npeople’s perceptions usually are distorted toward the most recent news \nitems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Ebola scare did not increase the demand for preparedness among the surveyed U.S. citizens,” the economists wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our results illustrate that people do not always use the most \navailable information when evaluating relative risk. They still tend to \nundervalue risks believed to be remote and abstract, even after a scare \nlike Ebola,” the researchers added. “Once Ebola reached the U.S. and the\n media conveyed the possible outcomes of a global outbreak, a disease \nwith no known cure and terrifying consequences for those infected, the \nreality of a pandemic outbreak did not significantly affect their \nviews.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The economists did not address whether COVID-19 will make pandemic \npreparedness a higher priority among U.S. citizens — that will have to \nbe addressed in future research — but they suggest that their findings \nfollowing the Ebola outbreak should cause policymakers to not rely on \npublic perception when it comes to disease threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The present COVID-19 pandemic drives home the importance of these behavioral results and the necessity of taking stronger preventive measures than the public might consider necessary,” the researchers wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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www.sciencedaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Journal Reference<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Jamison Pike, Jason F. Shogren, David Aadland, W. Kip Viscusi, David Finnoff, Alexandre Skiba, Peter Daszak. Catastrophic Risk: Waking Up to the Reality of a Pandemic?<\/strong> EcoHealth<\/em>, 2020; DOI: 10.1007\/s10393-020-01479-8<\/a>\n<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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