social distancing
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Social distancing is the practice of reducing how often and how closely people interact with each other, done to help prevent infectious diseases from spreading. It matters because limiting contact between people can slow down or reduce transmission of disease, which helps protect both individuals and communities.
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Research
15,095 papers- Social Distancing in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Associated Factors, Health Outcomes, and Implications.Family & community health · 2024
- Social Distancing.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2020
- Unveiling social distancing mechanisms via a fish-robot hybrid interaction.Biological cybernetics · 2021
- A social distancing measure governing the whole proteome.Current opinion in structural biology · 2021
- 'Distant socializing,' not 'social distancing' as a public health strategy for COVID-19.Pathogens and global health · 2021
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Article
People socially distancing while queuing to enter a supermarket in London during the COVID-19 pandemic Without social distancing and other pandemic containment measures, pathogens can spread exponentially. This graphic shows how early adoption of containment measures tends to protect wider swaths of the population.
In public health, social distancing, also called physical distancing, is a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions or measures intended to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other. It usually involves keeping a certain distance from others (the distance specified differs from country to country and can change with time) and avoiding gathering together in larger groups.