The Dos and Don’ts of ‘Social Distancing’

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued guidelines for “community mitigation strategies” to limit the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, which include recommendations for “social distancing”—a term that epidemiologists are using to refer to a conscious effort to reduce close contact between people and hopefully stymie community transmission of the virus. Experts weigh in on whether you should cancel your dates, dinner parties, and gym sessions. If you’re confused about what to do right now, you’re not alone—even these experts occasionally disagreed on the answers to the questions. There is a general consensus that while young and healthy people who are at lower risk for personally suffering severe illness from the coronavirus don’t have to be locking themselves in their homes for the next month, they do need to dramatically alter their daily lives, starting now.

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