People have a fundamental need for human connection. This idea is strongly rooted in our evolutionary past: Social living enhances the likelihood for survival from infancy through old age, making ...

In the first post we looked at face masks; in the second we looked at disinfection. This time we’re looking at social distancing, the potential contamination that can arose from the shared air and ...

Social distancing are practices implemented by public health officials to keep contagious diseases from spreading. The measures are aimed at trying to cut down the amount of virus spreading around, ...

BOSTON, Mass. (AP) — As the coronavirus spreads into more and more communities, public health officials are placing responsibility on individuals to help slow the pandemic. Social distancing is the ...

In my previous post, I wrote about Why You Need to Stay Connected While Social Distancing. In this post, I’m writing about why you need to maintain the social distancing. The primary reason to stay at ...

Studying epidemics can help us plan for the future and identify better ways of dealing with them. Now, in a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a ...

Whether the people of Nebelivka knew it or not, this lower-density, clustered layout could have helped prevent any disease outbreaks from consuming the entire settlement. Fast Company’s picks of the 9 ...

Changing people’s behavior until a vaccine could be developed prevented roughly 800,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S., far more than many scientists predicted was possible, according to new CU Boulder ...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — COVID-19 is yet to peak in the borderlands, and local officials are focusing on pressing challenges like discouraging Mother’s Day gatherings that could boost the ...

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