What Does Social Distancing Actually Mean?
3 min readMar 29, 2020
Social distancing is non-pharmaceutical infection prevention and control intervention implemented to avoid/decrease contact between those who are infected with a disease-causing pathogen and those who are not, so as to stop or slow down the rate and extent of disease transmission in a community. This eventually leads to a decrease in spread, morbidity and mortality due to the disease.
One way to slow the spread of viruses is social distancing (also called physical distancing).
The more space between you and others, the harder it is for the virus to spread.
Other examples of social distancing that allow you to avoid larger crowds or crowded spaces are:
- Working from home…