Two metres or one: what is the evidence for physical distancing in covid-19?

BMJ. 2020 Aug 25:370:m3223. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m3223.

Authors

Nicholas R Jones, Zeshan U Qureshi¹, Robert J Temple², Jessica P J Larwood³, Trisha Greenhalgh⁴, Lydia Bourouiba⁵

Affiliations

¹ St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.
² Somerville College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ St John's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, UK.
⁵ Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA lbouro@mit.edu.

PMID: 32843355
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m3223

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19 / prevention & control*
COVID-19 / transmission
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control*
Coronavirus Infections / transmission
Environmental Exposure / prevention & control*
Humans
Pandemics / prevention & control*
Physical Distancing*
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
Risk Assessment
SARS-CoV-2