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When Interdependence Backfires: COVID-19 Infected Three Times More People in Rice-Farming Areas During Chinese New Year
2023-09-18
Abstract excerpt
Interdependent cultures around the world have generally controlled COVID-19 better. We tested this pattern China based on the rice theory, which argues that historically rice-farming regions of China are more interdependent than wheat-farming areas. Unlike earlier findings, rice-farming areas suffered more COVID-19 cases in the early days of the outbreak. We suspected this happened because the outbreak fell on Chi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 11cd1eec-30d5-50af-99dd-d6134e67baca
- DOI
- 10.2139/ssrn.4569952