Disease Prevalence and Fatality, Life History Strategies, and Behavioral Control of the COVID Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic caught the world by surprise and raised many questions. One of the questions is whether infectious diseases indeed drive fast life history (LH) as the extent research suggests. This paper challenges this assumption and raises a different perspective. We argue that infectious di...

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Autores principales: Lu, Hui Jing, Wang, Xin Rui, Liu, Yuan Yuan, Chang, Lei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8576458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34777951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40806-021-00306-9
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Sumario:The COVID-19 pandemic caught the world by surprise and raised many questions. One of the questions is whether infectious diseases indeed drive fast life history (LH) as the extent research suggests. This paper challenges this assumption and raises a different perspective. We argue that infectious diseases enact either slower or faster LH strategies and the related disease control behavior depending on disease severity. We tested and supported the theorization based on a sample of 662 adult residents drawn from all 32 provinces and administrative regions of mainland China. The findings help to broaden LH perspectives and to better understand unusual social phenomena arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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