Here are some questions and answers about the “social distancing” efforts to slow the epidemic in the USWhat is Social Distancing? Social distancing are practices implemented by public health officials to keep contagious diseases from spreading. Officials are simply trying to set a reasonable parameter to “increase social distancing while not creating social isolation,” he said in an interview streamed by the Journal of the American Medical Association. “We’re going to see increasing (case) numbers, and that’s going to be frustrating to people who are doing social distancing. But that doesn’t mean social distancing isn’t working,” Weatherhead said.

Source: Manila Times March 16, 2020 20:48 UTC