Although the practice of quarantine is ancient, the term “social distancing” is actually quite recent. The problem with “social distancing” is that it points to the wrong thing: It’s not social ...

Americans are being more careful to avoid catching and spreading the coronavirus but are still not being careful enough to slow the pandemic, especially with worrisome, apparently more contagious new ...

Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, have found a surprisingly simple way of understanding social-distancing behavior during an epidemic. Tokyo, Japan – ...

Researchers have found that the implementation of social distancing policies corresponded with significant reductions in transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and reduced community mobility, both in ...

New modeling shows how social distancing could have better been implemented. The key? Longer periods of distancing would have helped -- but only to a point. More needed to be done. The first case of ...

Roland Geraerts is with Utrecht University and is founder of uCrowds. He receives funding from The Dutch Research Council (NWO). As Europe faces a resurgence of coronavirus, having loosened strict ...

Over the past few weeks, misinformation about the new coronavirus pandemic has been spreading across social media at an alarming rate. One video that went viral claimed breathing hot air from a hair ...