Inside STAT: What the U.S. did wrong on Covid-19 — and what others did right

South Korea, Taiwan, and New Zealand are among the countries who have been praised for being science-driven in the way they've communicated risks and recommendations about the Covid-19 pandemic to their citizens. The U.S. and the U.K. have notoriously not been as successful. In this week's episode of STAT's podcast "The Readout LOUD," health communications expert Heidi Tworek talks about these differences, especially the strategies that made for effective communication and which ones were less than ideal. Counterintuitively, for example, places that didn't rely on publicly shaming people for not following mask mandates or other rules saw higher rates of compliance than places with fines or other shaming strategies. Read the transcript of the conversation with Tworek here.