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 ...

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 – ...

I am a historian of pandemics. Like an accountant preparing his clientele’s income taxes, you might say, “This is my busy season!” From 2005 to 2007, I led a group of historians at the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...