Hysteria is the Most Dangerous Coronavirus Symptom
22nd August 2020
“When people estimate risk, they overestimate it massively,” says King College London’s Professor Neil Greenberg, who works with Public Health England as part of the Health Protection Research Unit for Emergency Preparedness and Response. “We are very poor as a public at estimating what risk really means.”
That does not mean the threat posed by Covid-19 can be summarily dismissed, but experts are keen for a sense of proportion.