Social distancing decreases an individual's likelihood of contracting COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: Past research has established the value of social distancing as a means of deterring the spread of COVID-19 largely by examining aggregate level data. Locales in which efforts were undertaken to encourage distancing experienced reductions in their rate of transmission. However, these aggregate results tell us little about the effectiveness of social distancing at the level of the individual, which is the question addressed by the current research. Four months after participating in a study assessing their social distancing behavior, 2,120 participants indicated whether they had contracted COVID-19. Importantly, the assessment of social distancing involved not only a self-report measure of how strictly participants had followed social distancing recommendations but also a series of virtual

SUBMITTER: Fazio RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7923674 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature