"Social Distancing". I have just heard that phrase for the 2nd time.
What does it mean?
Separating people from each other in the case of an outbreak of a highly contagious outbreak.
The warning as New Scientist Web site talks about and a little more back ground on "social distancing":
Click on link below for full article. Or read below for just a snippet of the article from the site.....
New Scientist Breaking News - Stockpile human bird flu vaccine now, say experts:
"Countries should stockpile vaccines against H5N1 flu even before any H5N1 pandemic begins, experts warn. A new modelling study shows that without such vaccines, and antiviral drugs, efforts such as school closures and travel restrictions will have almost no effect on the number of deaths a pandemic would cause in the US.
Yet that is what the country currently relies on. In March, US Health Secretary Michael Leavitt told a Congressional panel that 'in the first six months of a pandemic we are dependent on basic public health and social distancing�. The term 'social distancing' refers to measures that reduce human contact, such as school and business closures."
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