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Jun 10, 2020 · Keeping social distance is one of the main measures to protect people from contracting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. 1 This measure is essential especially in the absence of an effective vaccine and effective treatments at this point in time.
Mar 20, 2020 · “Social distancing is putting into place public health measures that are designed to reduce contact between people,” says Aubree Gordon, an associate professor of epidemiology at the ...
Mar 24, 2020 · The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes social distancing as “remaining out of congregate settings, avoiding mass gatherings and maintaining distance (approximately 6 feet or 2 ...
Feb 20, 2023 · The notion of social distance between people in normal circumstances is a social construct, affected by restrictive measures. Another example of subjective space is the concept of social space, which could be understood as “ an intersubjective matrix of psychological distances based on physical and social reality that provides a framework ...
Mar 12, 2020 · The public-health imperative is to create social distance; that’s the only way we’re going to stop this. Think about having those get-togethers but practicing good public health: not sitting ...
Oct 30, 2020 · Social distancing, as most people probably know by now, is the idea that to slow the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus, you need to maintain a certain distance from people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends social distancing, staying at least 6 feet apart from others indoors and outdoors, as part of its ...
Jun 25, 2021 · Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and its dramatic spread in the early months of 2020, the term social distancing has rapidly become a key term in public and private discourse. At the same time, social distance, physical distance and physical distancing have become current in the same context. This paper examines these terms in (samples of) four corpora of British English (BNC, ukWaC ...
