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    1. EU governments suspending the AstraZeneca vaccine really feels like an information cascade What do you think about it? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_cascade?wprov=sfti1
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    1, 2 and 3: seems it’s the case 4 and 5 seems a bit less convincing, because scientific studies are available to everybody, not just a couple of countries. On the other side, not all scientific knowledge circulates via pubs, so…
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      Maybe it started like an information cascade, and then turned into a sequential game where if Pres/PM X does not suspend the vaccine, they’ll be criticized because Y did, and so they suspend it defensively (to avoid being criticized)
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        Among other possible explanations: - herd behavior - willingness to implement a somewhat unified doctrine within the EU/among EU states
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