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cord-033219-uwzgbpeo	Naumann, Elias	COVID‐19 policies in Germany and their social, political, and psychological consequences	2020-09-28		.txt	text/plain	4656	212	56	In this paper, we will focus on Germany, briefly summarize the main policies during the first 6 weeks of confinement and then explore political attitudes, risk perceptions, and the social consequences of the lockdown. Finally, we explore the psychological reactions of the public focusing on how threatened people feel by the COVID-19 pandemic, how they rate their individual infection risk and their ability to control an infection, and the perceived likelihood of severe illness if infected (see Appendix for the exact wording of questions and response scale). Our analysis of survey data starting at the peak of the first wave briefly after the lockdown was introduced shows very high approval rates of these policy measures which might explain their success in effectively delaying the spread and reducing new infections to below 1,000 per day by mid-May. Also, Germany managed to keep the number of deaths at a very low level throughout the crisis (see contributions by Malandrino (2020) on Italy and by Colfer (2020) , covering the UK, in this issue).	./cache/cord-033219-uwzgbpeo.txt	./txt/cord-033219-uwzgbpeo.txt