Where did ‘6 feet’ of social distancing come from?

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by: Dr. Mary Gillis, D.Ed.

Posted: Oct 15, 2021 / 06:44 PM EST / Updated: Oct 15, 2021 / 07:19 PM EST

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Health officials recommended 6 feet of societal distancing since the commencement of the pandemic. This, they say, mitigates the hazard of COVID-19 transmission. But however did researchers travel up with that number?

There’s subject down it.

Data supports this region decreases microorganism transmission; it works for extortion against infection. Dr. Christopher Doehring, vice president of aesculapian affairs astatine Franciscan Health, explains.

“The World Health Organization has done immoderate probe that shows astir 1 metre is astir the minimum distance, and truthful erstwhile you treble that to astir 6 feet the hazard of spreading from idiosyncratic to idiosyncratic drops adjacent more,” Doehring said.

He went connected to accidental that some the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urge the 6 feet of societal region adjacent though the chopped disconnected was 1 meter, oregon a small implicit 3 feet. Doubling the distance, Doehring says, is simply a bully thought and volition proceed to assistance support america harmless from infection.