Your guide to social distancing during the coronavirus outbreak:
Canceling events. Closing schools. Avoiding crowds. Staying home. All of these actions have one goal in common, and it can help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 illness: social distancing.
Research has found that SARS-CoV-2, the formal name for the coronavirus causing the current pandemic, travels in droplets and could prospectively remain airborne up to three hours after someone who is infected has coughed or sneezed. Other studies have concluded that coronaviruses can remain alive on surfaces anywhere from a few hours to multiple days.
Social-distancing behaviors can occur on a large scale and a more individual scale alike. Large-scale measures that have already become commonplace include the cancellation of major events such as parades and sports tournaments and the closing of public spaces such as schools and churches. Those who don’t have symptoms of COVID-19 and have not knowingly come into contact with someone who does can leave their homes. But people generally should avoid crowded spaces, such as bars and grocery stores. Get-togethers like birthday parties and play dates for children should also be avoided.
The more extreme social-distancing measures a person can take include self-quarantining. This means staying home, not welcoming visitors into your home and avoiding sharing household items. “Our health system will not be able to cope with the projected numbers of people who will need acute care should we not muster the fortitude and will to socially distance each other starting now,” Dr. Asaf Bitton, executive director of Ariadne Labs in Boston, wrote on Medium.
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