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  2. What is social distancing and how can it slow the spread of ...

    hub.jhu.edu/2020/03/13/what-is-social-distancing

    What is social distancing? Social distancing is a public health practice that aims to prevent sick people from coming in close contact with healthy people in order to reduce opportunities for disease transmission. It can include large-scale measures like canceling group events or closing public spaces, as well as individual decisions such as ...

  3. Social distancing - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. How to Protect Yourself and Others | CDC

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    CDC’s COVID-19 hospital admission levels provide information about the amount of severe illness in the community where you are located to help you decide when to take action to protect yourself and others.

  5. Coronavirus, Social and Physical Distancing and Self-Quarantine

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    What is social distancing? The practice of social distancing means staying home and away from others as much as possible to help prevent spread of COVID-19. The practice of social distancing encourages the use of things such as online video and phone communication instead of in-person contact.

  6. How Social Distancing Combats COVID-19 - US News Health

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    In short, experts say, social distancing is our one and only big hope for intervening early enough to dramatically reduce the spread of the disease and deaths. Whether successful or not, the...

  7. Social distancing: What it is and why it's the best tool we ...

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    What is social distancing? Social distancing is a tool public health officials recommend to slow the spread of a disease that is being passed from person to person.

  8. Social distancing measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic

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    Social distancing, or physical distancing, is a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions or measures taken 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.

  9. What Is Social Distancing? How to Use It Amid Coronavirus - TIME

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    Per the CDC’s recommendation, social distancing involves “remaining out of congregate settings, avoiding mass gatherings, and maintaining distance” whenever possible to limit the ability of the...

  10. Social Distancing: The Impact on Your Health and Immune System

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    Social distancing is a term used in public health that means to stay home or separate yourself from others as much as possible, in order to prevent or reduce the likelihood of the spread of...

  11. COVID-19 and social distancing - PMC - National Center for ...

    www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7247774

    The aim of this article is to discuss the social distancing measures for COVID-19. Subjects and methods Literature and document search. Results Recent research and a novel coronavirus pneumonia prediction model revealed social distancing measures and wearing masks are required to mitigate hospital system overload and prevent pathogen exposure.