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This study compared the perceived severity of the pandemic\u2019s impacts across three dimensions: (a) domain (health vs economy), (b) target (self, own country, world) and (c) country (US, UK and Germany), over time (April 2020 to January 2022).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We administered a serial cross-sectional online survey as part of the \u2018EUCLID\u2019 project. A total of 78\u2009498 participants from the US, UK and Germany completed the questionnaire across 26 waves per country\u201478 survey waves in total. Data collection used quota-sampling to approximate national distributions by age group x gender.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Perceived health (M=3.41, SD=1.07) and economic (M=3.69, SD=1.09) impacts were rated as moderate to serious (scale: 1\u20135). Most participants showed individual optimism, perceiving the impact on themselves as less severe than on their country or the world (e.g., health: 55.6% self vs country, 66.0% self vs world; economy: 66.0% and 67.5%, respectively). Conversely, national optimism was less common (health: 33.5%, economy: 15.9%). 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