{"id":399,"date":"2020-08-04T23:52:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T23:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publichealth.sdsu.edu\/covid-19\/?page_id=399"},"modified":"2020-08-04T23:52:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T23:52:59","slug":"physical-distancing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/prevention\/physical-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As described in this web site\u2019s sections \u201cSaliva and mucous droplets\u201d and \u201cAerosols,\u201d larger droplets often fall from the air in one or two meters, and small aerosol particles can float for many meters.\u00a0 So, the greater the distance you are from an infected person, the less likely that you will inhale many of their viruses (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMc2007800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anfinrud et al.<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-019-38808-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asadi et al.<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2763852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bourouiba<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/news-perspective\/2020\/03\/commentary-covid-19-transmission-messages-should-hinge-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brosseau<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atsjournals.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1164\/rccm.202004-1263PP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dhand, Li<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMc2009324\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meselson<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalofhospitalinfection.com\/article\/S0195-6701(06)00286-6\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tang, Li et al.<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2020\/05\/12\/2006874117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stadnytskyi et al.<\/a>).\u00a0 A comparison of studies of the effects of physical distancing in household, community, and healthcare settings found that \u201cat least 1 m physical distancing seem to be strongly associated with a large protective effect, and distances of 2 m could be more effective\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(20)31142-9\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chu et al.<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As described in this web site\u2019s sections \u201cSaliva and mucous droplets\u201d and \u201cAerosols,\u201d larger droplets often fall from the air in one or two meters, and small aerosol particles can float for many meters.\u00a0 So, the greater the distance you are from an infected person, the less likely that you will inhale many of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":83,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-399","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vryheid.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}