Extending social contact to small groups outside our own households has been suggested as a way to get out of lockdowns but experts question how practical this strategy is to implement.
outside their household, so long they are outside and keep a distance from each other.
However, he added that the difficultly comes with the size of the group, as its scale could increase the probability of infection. Mike Tildesley, an associate professor who specializes in infectious disease control at the University of Warwick, said that while "in principle, it's a really sensible strategy," practically it would be difficult to implement.
"You could envisage this situation where you name a group of friends, they name a group of friends that includes you, but it has some people that aren't included on your list and all you've got is some sort of porous process that filters through the population more slowly that it did before," Tildesley added.
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