What is the essential role of trust in crisis management?

Trust in other people was even more important than trust in the government with regards to helping mitigate COVID-19 infections. Image: Unsplash/Brett Jordan
Joseph L Dieleman
Associate Professor, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington
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