The nation's top mental health official had spent months asking for evidence behind the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's social distancing guidelines, warning that keeping Americans ...

Arguments in the state Court of Appeals Wednesday were the latest chapter in a six-year legal saga over whether government ...

As the coronavirus outbreak has spread throughout the United States, social and physical distancing measures have taken many forms — such as business and school closures, stay-at-home orders, and ...

Studying epidemics can help us plan for the future and identify better ways of dealing with them. Now, in a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a ...

We all remember the advice frequently repeated during the COVID pandemic: maintain six feet of distance from every other human when waiting in a line to avoid transmitting the virus. While reasonable, ...

A recent JAMA Network Open study determines whether the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic influenced the increase of neonatal mortality in the United States. Study: Social Distancing During ...

After a few days of “social distancing,” my closets are organized with everything in my house labeled. My living room is entirely covered in sheets to make a “Bad-Guys-Only Fort” to entertain my ...

While social distancing is now recommended by the Centers for Disease Control as a method to help flatten the COVID-19 curve, we've actually been practicing a kind of social distancing at an emotional ...

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During infectious disease outbreaks, a new standard has been established to determine the level of response by weighing both the effectiveness of prev ...