In response to the COVID-19 outbreak across countries, of the different national policies, possibly the most strikingly distinct path is the one initially chosen by UK and the Netherlands Instead of trying to avoid contamination as much as possible though drastic measures such as early lockdown, the strategy was initially to encourage herd immunity In the UK, this initial policy choice was presented as based on both epidemiol and behavioral sciences
The UK COVID-19 response: a behavioural irony?