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Data-Powered Positive Deviance during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic—An Ecological Pilot Study of German Districts

  • We introduced the mixed-methods Data-Powered Positive Deviance (DPPD) framework as a potential addition to the set of tools used to search for effective response strategies against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. For this purpose, we conducted a DPPD study in the context of the early stages of the German SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. We used a framework of scalable quantitative methods to identify positively deviant German districts that is novel in the scientific literature on DPPD, and subsequently employed qualitative methods to identify factors that might have contributed to their comparatively successful reduction of the forward transmission rate. Our qualitative analysis suggests that quick, proactive, decisive, and flexible/pragmatic actions, the willingness to take risks and deviate from standard procedures, good information flows both in terms of data collection and public communication, alongside the utilization of social network effects were deemed highly important by the interviewed districts. Our study design with its small qualitative sample constitutes an exploratory and illustrative effort and hence does not allow for a clear causal link to be established. Thus, the results cannot necessarily be extrapolated to other districts as is. However, the findings indicate areas for further research to assess these strategies’ effectiveness in a broader study setting. We conclude by stressing DPPD’s strengths regarding replicability, scalability, adaptability, as well asits focus on local solutions, which make it a promising framework to be applied in various contexts,e.g., in the context of the Global South.

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Author:Joshua Driesen, Ziad El-Khatib, Niklas WulkowORCiD, Mitchell Joblin, Iskriyana Vasileva, Andreas Glücker, Valentin Kruspel, Catherine Vogel
Document Type:Article
Parent Title (English):International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume:18
Issue:9765
First Page:1
Last Page:29
Year of first publication:2021
DOI:https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189765
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