Risk Compensation and COVID-19 Vaccines

Ann Intern Med. 2021 Jun;174(6):858-859. doi: 10.7326/M20-8251. Epub 2021 Mar 2.

Abstract

The authors of this commentary discuss the “Peltzman Effect,” a phenomenon in which individuals respond to safety measures with a compensatory increase in risky behavior, and how it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic through “pandemic fatigue” and postvaccination behavior.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19 / epidemiology
  • COVID-19 / prevention & control*
  • COVID-19 Vaccines / administration & dosage*
  • Humans
  • Masks
  • Pandemics
  • Physical Distancing
  • Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
  • Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / virology
  • Risk Reduction Behavior*
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • COVID-19 Vaccines