Can Behavioral Science Help Us Fight COVID‑19

Coronavirus disease‑2019 (COVID‑19) has become a pandemic, saturating the world’s health systems. Governments have implemented many actions to fight with the pandemic; in some cases they took effect and in others they did not. Government efforts such as quarantine and social distancing worked decreasing the number of infected with COVID‑19. In some countries, such as Peru, people did not fully comply with quarantine or distancing for social reasons. We need more tools to help us with the same goal of defeating the pandemic. Implement measures in a large‑scale population can be difficult and change the behavior of the population to fully comply with the quarantine. Recommendations of epidemiologists and government require to use social and behavioral sciences to align. We need to reduce the peak of the epidemic until the health system reaches its maximum usability.[1] The purpose of this letter was to provide a tool that can be used in the fight with COVID‑19 from the medical sciences.