COVID-19 Risk Perceptions After the End of the Public Health Emergency

Asako Chiba, Kazuya Haganuma, Taisuke Nakata, Thuy Linh Nguyen and Reo Takaku

No e224, Working Papers from Tokyo Center for Economic Research

Abstract: We examine how information provision affects the public's perceived COVID-19 infection risk after the official end of the pandemic as a public health emergency (PHE). We conducted our survey in Japan in August 2023, a few months after the government reclassified COVID-19 from Category II to Category V and officially ended the PHE. We find that none of the information treatments affected the public's risk perceptions in a statistically significant way, in stark contrast with a similar information-provision experiment conducted right before the reclassification. Our result suggests that the official end of the PHE may influence how the public responds to news about infection.

Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2026-03
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