Howard Kunreuther of the Wharton School said he sees parallels between his research on why people struggle to assess whether they’ll be affected by natural disasters and how people have dismissed the threat of the novel coronavirus.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/why-human-brains-are-bad-at-assessing-the-risks-of-pandemics/2020/09/03/7395321c-dd9d-11ea-b205-ff838e15a9a6_story.html The Washington Post