Social distancing could reduce spread of coronavirus by 65 per cent: Study

Social distancing for merely two weeks could curb coronavirus by 65 per cent globally, a new study has found. study released on July 30, by Texas researchers, compared two states for ir lockdown policies As a result, y found that countries which implemented social distancing saw lesser spre of COVID-19  as compared to states without such policies.

“We found that states observed significant reductions in transmission rates following implementation of social distancing policies, compared to states without such policies,” Daniel McGrail, a postdoctoral fellow studying systems biology, said in a statement.

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For purpose of study, team at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre compared two states Nebraska and Idaho with latter having a distancing policy and former lacking one. study found out lesser COVID-19 cases in Idaho as compared to Nebraska. In dition, it also found that South Dakota, whose goverr also resisted a statewide policy, also saw little to reduction in cases. Meanwhile, Wyoming lacked a social distancing policy and sparsely populated state came in fifteenth from bottom out of 50 states in terms of reducing coronavirus spre. 

Expansion to global level

“While analysis of US states indicated that social distancing policies reduced Covid-19 spre rates proportional to associated reductions in mobility, only having three states without social distancing policies reduces power of any observation. To dress this, we next expanded our model to global level, “ scientists concluded.

y n analysed data from 134 different nations and found that social distancing policy “significantly secured” coronavirus spre. “Socia distancing can result in an estimated 65% reduction in new Covid-19 cases over a two week time period,” researchers wrote. However concluded that Social distancing is t necessarily only way to reduce spre, ar method like contact tracing could also work.

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