The most important thing to know about social distancing

You're watching the numbers go up every day.

Yet, mayors and governors around the nation have ordered Americans to stay inside. Sports are canceled. Birthday parties are canceled. The Rolling Stones tour is canceled. Pick-up basketball in parks, canceled.

When will these unprecedented social distancing measures — intended to significantly reduce the uncontrolled rise in new coronavirus infections — work? When is the big payoff? The answer is to be patient, and expect to be patient for perhaps a month, if not considerably longer. Social distancing doesn't pay off immediately. It can't.

"People should hunker down for the long haul," said Henry Raymond, an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Rutgers School of Public Health. Read more...

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