The rats freed their companions even when social contact was prevented.
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Not quite, since schools were open and social contact was allowed.
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For the truly disadvantaged, however, social contact was in short supply.
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People do differ in how much social contact they need and desire.
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"It creates a meeting place, a point of social contact," he says.
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And that's something that even the isolated can do with minimal social contact.
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"Social contact helps us stay mentally healthy and fights boredom," its note stated.
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The key advice is to recreate social contact using video conferencing, two ways.
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Reduce your social contact as much as possible, for everything that's not an emergency.
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First, don't think of it as social distancing, but physical distancing while maintaining social contact.
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Seniors who need Meals on Wheels for food and social contact would lose the service.
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Finally, on Monday, Johnson announced that the UK should stop non-essential social contact and travel.
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All of the country's 60 million residents were told to remain indoors and limit social contact.
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Biden and Sanders have canceled large rallies and are giving speeches remotely, to avoid social contact.
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At what point did his relations with Pauline begin to violate the ordinary rules of social contact?
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"I don't think the solution of totally being devoid of social contact is the answer," Perissinotto said.
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"I don't think the solution of totally being devoid of social contact is the answer," she said.
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The country is advising its citizens to limit all social contact as the country heads toward lockdown.
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Italians have also been asked to stay at home and limit social contact as much as possible.
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To mentally and emotionally cope with a quarantine or reduced social contact, virtually reach out to others.
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Depriving young people of sensory and social contact has a heightened risk of serious and lasting effects.
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Although people who wander may gain social contact, exercise, and stimulation, they can also become lost or exhausted.
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Will today's tweens and teens use video games as their primary methods of social contact, eschewing social networks?
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Gordon told CNN on Saturday that he had limited social contact with Butina after he left the campaign.
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Large numbers of British people are ignoring the government's advice to avoid social contact as the coronavirus spreads.
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The government has asked people to avoid all unnecessary social contact but has refused to forcibly close pubs.
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That event proved lethal among elderly Chicagoans living in poor, segregated neighborhoods that afforded residents little social contact.
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All 60 million people living in the country have been told to remain indoors and limit social contact.
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Social contact is one of the best ways to calm down, providing you're in contact with calm people.
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The office of the governor of Guam urged people to continue to stay indoors and limit social contact.
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It has restricted social contact by shutting down schools, daycare centres and non-essential businesses until after Easter.
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This troubling infection rate will not level off unless people, infected or not, cut down on social contact.
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In other words, is there something insulting about describing a person as someone who thrives on social contact?
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"Social contact with family and friends has almost come to a halt," she told the NRC over the phone.
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They threaten, ultimately, to exacerbate the decline in civic engagement and social contact known as the "bowling alone" problem.
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There were some unsettling, if morbidly fascinating, ploys for turning social contact into a set-and-forget robotized task.
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Social contact can reduce physical pain, but social pain also serves an evolutionary function in making us seek connection.
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Even females as young as 24 "tended to emulate the social contact pattern of their mothers," Dr. Wittemyer said.
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"Protracted loneliness causes you to shut down socially, and to be more suspicious of any social contact," Hari writes.
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Good hygiene practices including frequent hand washing and avoiding close social contact can help reduce the risk of infection.
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Good hygiene practices including frequent hand washing and avoiding close social contact can help reduce the risk of infection.
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But the coronavirus outbreak presents special challenges because of the recommendations to avoid social contact or gather large crowds.
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That indicates that the limited measures taken until recently did not sever social contact enough to slow the spreading.
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"Because of the fear of social contact, nobody fully knows who has it and who doesn't it," she said.
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The study found that participants who were more physically active also had more social contact that engaged their brains.
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Cancellations, closings and a thinning out of tables may be just the beginning for a business based on social contact.
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The upshot is a loss of daily social contact, lives spent in the car and a new form of solitude.
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Retirement can conjure up a lot of worrisome prospects, from physical decline to diminished social contact — and then there's the money.
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For three days before and after these interventions, participants completed periodic assessments throughout the day to measure loneliness and social contact.
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Barrett says that when the brain doesn't get the input it's expecting, one such input being social contact, development goes wrong.
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Chipotle Starting Sunday, March 15, Chipotle is aiding limited social contact by offering free delivery through the end of the month.
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In her weekly podcast, Chancellor Angela Merkel urged people to reduce social contact, for example by children not visiting their grandparents.
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Social contact in immigration courts and in detention centers still pose a serious risk for vulnerable populations that hasn't been addressed.
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Governments around the world have been implementing measures intended to reduce social contact in order to prevent the spread of the virus.
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The German government was slow to take vital action, such as reducing social contact, and now has more than 29,000 confirmed cases.
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But the reality is so many people everywhere just don't understand how important it is to stay home and avoid social contact.
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At least one of those people, Trump campaign foreign policy adviser JD Gordon, acknowledged emails and social contact with Butina before the election.
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Social shunning is another case, torture through the accumulation of omissions — individuals avoiding social contact with a certain person — as opposed to actions.
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I doubt any of us realized it would be our last real social contact before the wall of the coronavirus came crashing down.
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And there are real health concerns for people who already live alone and are isolated, who really suffer from lack of social contact.
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Trump echoed his comments about Whitaker in tweets late Friday night, saying he had "no social contact" with him before his appointment this week.
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He cited city regulations and also "science that has provided evidence urging everyone to reduce nonessential social contact," according to the New York Times.
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Businesses including condom-makers, gin producers and food manufacturers are seeing consumers react in different ways as they self-isolate or reduce social contact.
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"If we want to flatten the curve we have to take more aggressive mitigation measures now and limit social contact now," he said Sunday.
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As significant chunks of the worldwide population adopt social distancing measures, many are turning to online spaces to ease the lack of social contact.
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However you interpret the recommendations or requirements in your area, experts' best advice is to simply limit your social contact as much as possible.
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I have a single friend who I walk with everyday so she knows that she has guaranteed social contact at least once a day.
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The best way to slow down the spread is for everyone — healthy, sick, young, old — to limit social contact as much as possible, immediately.
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The initial wave of coronavirus memes largely involved straightforward, upbeat reminders about the importance of avoiding social contact, staying inside, and washing your hands.
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What this poster, and others like her, are presenting is an opportunity to start a business that doesn't require any social contact at all.
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When you sign off for the day, you might find yourself longing for some social contact other than through video calls with your coworkers.
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This widespread vulnerability suggested another form of malicious manipulation: People might also believe misinformation they receive when clicking on a link from a social contact.
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Initial plans called for a weekly podcast, but Lin stepped that up when the threat of the coronavirus outbreak began reducing social contact between people.
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Earlier, he announced people will need to stop non-essential social contact and avoid clubs, pubs, theaters and all unnecessary travel as the outbreak accelerates.
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"As we advise against unnecessary social contact of all kinds, it's right that we should extend that advice to mass gatherings as well," Johnson said.
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Earlier, he announced people will need to stop non-essential social contact and avoid clubs, pubs, theaters and all unnecessary travel as the outbreak accelerates.
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Zafar is "wanting, needing, yearning social contact from cohorts, and that need isn't fulfilled," Elizabeth Hawkins, lead researcher with Dolphin Research Australia, told The Washington Post.
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But if Dr Greaves is right, then another message for parents is to encourage early social contact with other infants, which encourages the swapping of germs.
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Although social participation increases social contact and the risk of flu infection, that doesn't mean older adults should stop participating in their social activities, they added.
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The cancellation, announced in an email to participants, follows government advice for Britons to limit social contact to try to slow the spread of the virus.
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"Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands," instructs the agency website, along with recommendations for practicing hand hygiene and avoiding close social contact.
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Some people might be responding to practical concerns like the threat of job loss, the lack of social contact, or the availability of supplies, Minden says.
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The model, for example, assumes that officials will limit social contact through May: closing schools, enacting stay-at-home measures, and limiting travel and non-essential business.
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Researchers from AARP and Stanford University found that the government spends more than $6.7 billion annually on additional medical costs for Medicare recipients who lack social contact.
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It's true that the guide does not advocate fasting from social contact — in fact, it actually recommends that people talk and bond with others while they're dopamine fasting.
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"It's dangerous when a culture has no social contact rituals where groups mix, where extended families are in contact, where groups meet and do things together," Hamilton says.
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Isolating yourself from social contact is a pretty common response to feeling unhappy, but there's a large body of research that says it's the worst thing you can do.
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London lockdown: Tough Coronavirus measures expected for UK capitalCoronavirus: UK told to avoid social contact in lockdown Coronavirus: What it's like to fly in Europe as borders, flights close
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" 'Stay home' Edwards spoke with similar urgency Sunday: "If we want to flatten the curve, we have to take more aggressive mitigation measures now and limit social contact now.
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Stringent measures to limit social contact in large parts of the country are needed to significantly stem the tide of illness and death in the coming months, they said.
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UK citizens told to work from home and avoid all social contact as Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeks to slow the rapid spread of the coronavirus across the country.
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On Wednesday, Ms. Merkel, in a somber address to the nation, asked Germans to avoid social contact in a spirit of solidarity with those most at risk in society.
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The effectiveness of widespread travel bans, especially when community transmission is already occurring, is being hotly debated, but in general, minimizing social contact is the best method of prevention.
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On Monday, Johnson stepped up the U.K.'s advice to citizens, telling them to avoid all unnecessary social contact and to stop going to restaurants, clubs, pubs and theaters.
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He has one of the few Wi-Fi hot spots in Havana — not to mention extraordinary art –and every single person was on Facebook either for learning or social contact.
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Rather than jumping to alarmed conclusions about being left out or disliked, it's vital to remember that a bias is occurring, and to keep maintaining and participating in social contact.
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" In the meantime, he said, overcrowding makes a terrible situation worse, he added: "Right now our governor is recommending everyone shelter at home and avoid social contact to avoid transmission.
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Earlier this week, the government asked the public to avoid unnecessary social contact and work from home where possible as it ramped up its response to the spread of the virus.
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Then came another grisly crime over the weekend: A retired senior government official fatally stabbed his 21990-year-old son, who lived with his parents and had no other social contact.
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Mental health professionals and addiction support groups warn that this public health emergency poses a serious threat to people for whom social contact is a key element of support and treatment.
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In a similar way to its neighbors, Sweden's government has advocated working from home if at all possible, avoiding non-essential travel and the elderly are advised to avoid social contact.
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In solitary -- also called "the box" and "the hole" by prisoners, or euphemistically, "segregation" and "special housing" by corrections officials -- inmates have virtually no social contact, except for occasional transactions with guards.
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The researchers found that even before the coronavirus, about a quarter of older adults fit the definition of socially isolated — which measures routine social contact — and 43 percent said they felt lonely.
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If it turns out that many of those infected become severely ill, this would justify drastic measures such as closing or curtailing hours of schools, limiting public gatherings and reducing social contact.
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It reduces urban air pollution, urban noise, and the urban heat island effect, while increasing physical activity and social contact, all of which improves the physical and psychological health of urban communities.
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Practically, organizations like Help Musicians UK support artists experiencing mental health problems by offering "practical, positive support" to musicians of all genres; giving advice, funding and social contact to musicians who reach out.
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For healthy kids, an average day includes "school, homework time, at least one hour of physical activity, social contact and sleep -- which is anywhere from eight to 12 hours for kids," said Chassiakos.
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Participants who received training in monitoring and acceptance skills saw the greatest benefits: they reduced daily life loneliness by 22 percent and increased social contact by an average of two interactions each day.
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The government has made efforts to mitigate the spread of coronavirus in its immigration detention facilities, which house both children and adults, but social contact still poses a serious risk to vulnerable populations.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel urged all German citizens to help fight the spread of the coronavirus by sticking to rules aimed at reducing direct social contact and avoiding as many new infections as possible.
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On Friday, the government's chief science advisor Patrick Vallance repeated the government's warning that the spread of the disease could only be limited if people followed advice to avoid all unnecessary social contact.
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Major cities, including New York City and Los Angeles, as well as several states including Washington, Ohio, Illinois, have already announced a shutdown of bars and restaurants in order to limit social contact.
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"By this weekend it will be necessary to go further, and to ensure that those with the most serious health conditions are largely shielded from social contact for around 12 weeks," he said.
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Another thing to keep in mind is that it's perfectly normal to crave social contact during a crisis, and people who don't live with a partner/family/roommate deserve a little extra compassion.
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In the U.K., the government stopped short of closing schools but stepped up its advice to the public, with U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson telling the country on Monday to avoid social contact.
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Wednesday's announcements to the Istanbul stock exchange followed President Tayyip Erdogan's advice to Turks not to leave home for three weeks, unless necessary, and to minimise social contact until the virus threat recedes.
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Social contact and being together in public spaces, whether it's at the grocery store or a civic space like a park, are all elements that contribute to our collective sense of well-being.
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In an attempt to limit social contact to slow the spread of the virus, known officially as Covid-19, millions of employees in China and other affected areas are currently working from home.
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Behind the bread counter, Brigitte Sraczyk, a town-hall employee who used to clean classrooms, sells about 50 baguettes a day and enjoys the social contact as much as her clients seem to.
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Trump also suggested that stores should consider shuttering to limit social contact, praising Apple's move to close all of its stores outside of mainland China on Friday for at least the next two weeks.
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The closures come amid confusion about why schools are being advised to stay open when the government has stepped up advice to curb social contact to try to slow the spread of the virus.
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After previously rejecting strict curbs on normal activities, Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged everyone to avoid unnecessary social contact, and on March 23, ordered that people should only leave their homes for essential reasons.
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In a pair of tweets sent early Saturday morning from Paris, Trump claimed — again — that he had "no social contact" with Matthew Whitaker, his pick for acting attorney general following his Wednesday firing of Jeff Sessions.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday announced unprecedented restrictions on social contact in an attempt to slow the progress of the coronavirus epidemic, but said the government would attempt to minimize the economic impact.
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He said by this weekend it would be necessary to shield those with the most serious medical conditions from social contact, and the government was now advising against mass gatherings that required the presence of emergency workers.
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Richardson, who works in communications at Duke University, explained that one of the challenges of limited social contact with people — even though she's an introvert — is being able to have "the choice" to do as she pleases.
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Are you fully equipped with all the soft blankets, extra pillows, and other homey decor touches required to woo friends into coming to your place, thus saving you from braving the elements in a quest for social contact?
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A nearby art exhibition could then be recommended to a senior who otherwise might never have heard of it, encouraging both exercise and social contact, things people who are hospitalized or at a nursing home tend to lack.
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"We are emphasizing to everyone that it is important if you are feeling ill, or as a general practice, to maximize social distancing and minimize unnecessary social contact so as to mitigate collectively transmitting the virus," he said.
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Moscow has also taken steps to reduce social contact in the city to prevent the spread of the virus, including ordering the closure of schools and sports facilities and prohibiting all public events involving 50 or more people.
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As the scope of the COVID-19 pandemic came into focus over the past few days, national and local officials have rapidly implemented measures designed to cut off social contact to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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It was an image that, for many, drove home the total and long-term damage that isolation can do to young people, a group that depends more than most on social contact, educational stimulus, and a sense of purpose.
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As I initially pointed out, facts and rational arguments are often insufficient to sway sceptics; personal stories, social contact, appealing to emotions, emphasising what unites us, appealing to other people's values and addressing people's underlying concerns may also help.
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After the fall of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, hundreds of thousands of children were found to be living in orphanages, and had received little social contact from adults: no talking, no hugging, no eye contact, no emotional learning.
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President Tayyip Erdogan advised Turks on Wednesday not to leave home unless necessary for three weeks and to minimise social contact until the threat of the coronavirus recedes, but he did not tell them to stay away from work.
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If you're trying to get food and basic household supplies, ordering from grocery and food delivery services instead of crowding overwhelmed grocery stores and restaurants is a good way to avoid social contact and reduce the risk of infection.
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The new guidelines for everyone of limiting social contact and keeping six feet away make sense as part of a general containment effort, but that calculation gets trickier when kids are involved, especially for parents who have to work.
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"In this type of study, we cannot be certain about the explanations underlying these findings, so further research should examine the contribution of social contact and health behaviors, and consider how long after widowhood is dementia risk higher," Sommerlad said.
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Cities and states across the country are issuing shelter-in-place or similar orders instructing people to stay at home and minimize social contact to prevent the illness from spreading at a rate that would surpass the nation's hospital capacity.
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Just as people are taking steps to avoid unnecessary social contact and practicing better hygiene to help fight the pandemic, so they should think about whether they really need to livestream a lecture, for example, rather than recording it, Leung said.
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I think it's very important for vulnerable populations to be cognizant of the risks that they face, to try and evaluate their lives, and cut out as much nonessential social contact as possible until we get this thing under control.
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ANKARA, March 18 (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan advised Turks on Wednesday not to leave home unless necessary for three weeks and to minimise social contact until the threat of coronavirus recedes, but did not instruct people to stay away from work.
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LONDON — Many British people are continuing to ignore the government's advice to avoid social contact as the coronavirus spreads, and are flocking to busy pubs and using packed rail services despite warnings that it will encourage the spread of the disease.
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Instead, we should invest our time over the next several months toward preparing for November and addressing the problem the coronavirus has made quite apparent: Not all states have the resources to adapt to an environment that discourages social contact.
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BERLIN, March 16 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday announced a raft of measures limiting social contact in an attempt to slow the progress of the coronavirus epidemic, but said the government would attempt to minimise the economic impact.
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Physicians enter a moral social contact: Society gives doctors relative freedom and does not legislate everything they do, and in return, they agree to follow a high moral standard: to promote health, avoid harming patients, protect patient privacy and act justly.
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A California couple has been charged with torture after police rescued their 13 malnourished children from a home where some of them had been chained to beds, and neighbors on Monday described the family as shut-ins who shunned social contact.
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Physicians enter a moral social contact: Society gives doctors relative freedom and does not legislate everything they do, and in return, they agree to follow a high moral standard: to promote health, avoid harming patients, protect patient privacy and act justly.
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On Monday, Prime Minister Johnson stepped up the U.K.'s advice to citizens, telling them to avoid all unnecessary social contact and to stop going to restaurants, clubs, pubs and theaters, although the government stopped short on an outright ban.
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The Times has reported often during this bitter political season about how deeply polarized we are as a nation — and about how isolating it can be in general when too much of our social contact takes place online rather than in person.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson is consequently expected to ban large gatherings in the UK in an abrupt reversal of strategy — previously, his government made the controversial argument that limiting social contact would not be effective to prevent the spread of the virus.
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As Vox's Ezra Klein writes, the pandemic might cause a social recession, or "a collapse in social contact that is particularly hard on the populations most vulnerable to isolation and loneliness," who are older adults and people with disabilities or preexisting health conditions.
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A month before the coronavirus outbreak had us all avoiding travel and social contact, that desire led me to Artisan Bread Camp in Louisville, a five-day course run out of the brick building housing Edwards's restaurant, MozzaPi, and his milling operation, Louismill.
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Washington State's decisions so far, which have offered an early window into what may be coming for other states as the virus expands its range in the United States, have been guided by researchers' emphasis on the benefits of limiting social contact.
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For example, Dr. Steven Reiss, a research psychologist, conducted studies involving more than 6,000 people and found that 16 core desires can motivate our behavior: power, independence, curiosity, acceptance, order, saving, honor, idealism, social contact, family, status, vengeance, romance, eating, physical exercise and tranquillity.
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Each infected person is expected to infect a certain number of people — around 219 right now — who each in turn go on to infect 231 more, and on and on, unless drastic measures are taken to reduce social contact and isolate the infected from others.
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BERLIN, March 18 (Reuters) - EMBARGOED FOR 1830 German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday urged all citizens to help fight the spread of the coronavirus by sticking to the latest rules aimed at reducing direct social contact and avoiding as much new infections as possible.
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He praised Americans for being neighborly and said he was exempting himself and his handlers from orders to stay home and avoid unnecessary social contact in order to see off the Navy ship Comfort bound to sail for New York from Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday.
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While there are clear public health imperatives to ensure populations are following instructions to reduce social contact, the prospect of Western democracies making like China and actively monitoring citizens' movements raises uneasy questions about the long term impact of such measures on civil liberties.
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As the next best thing, if you would like to live longer and healthier, your best chance relies on limiting calorie intake and in particular cutting down on protein intake, regular moderate exercise, a regular sleep pattern, remaining intellectually engaged, and maintaining social contact.
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Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have put severe restrictions in place such the banned gatherings of 50 or more people, ordered the closing of restaurants, bars, gyms and theatres to stop the spread of the virus through social contact.
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With its focus on brief digital training sessions, the current study suggests that group sessions and the social contact that comes from in-person meetings may not be required for people to benefit from mindfulness interventions, said lead author Emily Lindsay, a psychology researcher at the University of Pittsburgh.
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"Following the government's new public health guidance regarding avoiding social contact and stopping non-essential travel, and its statement that emergency services are withdrawn from supporting mass gatherings from tomorrow (Tuesday), the Jockey Club has decided that it is no longer appropriate to stage the event," it said.
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"Following the Government's new public health guidance regarding avoiding social contact and stopping non-essential travel, and its statement that emergency services are withdrawn from supporting mass gatherings from tomorrow (Tuesday), the Jockey Club has decided that it is no longer appropriate to stage the event," it said.
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When that anxiety is coupled with a sudden drop in social contact — whether because you're quarantined or just working from home for who knows how long — those feelings can feel even more heightened, said Laura Hawryluck, a critical care physician and associate professor at the University of Toronto.
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"Following the Government's new public health guidance regarding avoiding social contact and stopping non-essential travel, and its statement that emergency services are withdrawn from supporting mass gatherings from tomorrow (Tuesday), the Jockey Club has decided that it is no longer appropriate to stage the event," it said.
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But just as the coronavirus fallout threatens to cause an economic recession, it's also going to cause what we might call a "social recession": a collapse in social contact that is particularly hard on the populations most vulnerable to isolation and loneliness — older adults and people with disabilities or preexisting health conditions.
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But just as the coronavirus fallout threatens to cause an economic recession, it's also going to cause what we might call a 'social recession': a collapse in social contact that is particularly hard on the populations most vulnerable to isolation and loneliness — older adults and people with disabilities or preexisting health conditions.
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"With all that we now know about federal, state and citywide mandates, as well as the science that has provided evidence urging everyone to reduce nonessential social contact, we have made the difficult, but for us, obvious decision to temporarily close our restaurants in New York City," Mr. Meyer said in a statement.
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On the one hand, we are asked to sequester ourselves in family units, shared dwelling spaces, or individual domiciles, deprived of social contact and relegated to spheres of relative isolation; on the other hand, we are faced with a virus that swiftly crosses borders, oblivious to the very idea of national territory.
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This fits with a much wider body of evidence about depression: We know that social contact reduces depression, we know that distraction from rumination (to which depressives are highly prone) has a similar effect, and there is some evidence that exposure to the natural world, and anything that increases exposure to sunlight, also has antidepressant effects.
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" The study also highlights the contradictions inherent in the gig economy's "flexible working" narrative — with the researchers noting that while algorithms do not formally control where workers work, in reality remote platform workers may have "little real choice but to work from home, and this can lead to a lack of social contact and feelings of social isolation.
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"In addition, even if all patients were able to be treated, we predict there would still be in the order of 250,000 deaths in GB, and 1.1-1.2 million in the US."The mitigation strategy focused on measures such as asking people with coronavirus symptoms to self-isolate for 14 days and for elderly people to avoid social contact.
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While the implementation of social distancing — avoiding large gatherings and maintaining a distance from others — is crucial to preventing the coronavirus pandemic from intensifying, the practice could also cause a "social recession," or a collapse in social contact that especially affects populations who are most susceptible to loneliness and isolation, like the elderly, according to Vox.
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Officials involved with the White House Office of American Innovation, for example, have spent the past several days conferring with major tech companies about how they can help distribute public service announcements related to COVID-19 and prevent severe supply shortages as consumers prepare for weeks of minimal social contact outside their homes and hospitals worry about the availability of protective personal equipment — including surgical masks, goggles and gloves — and office supplies.
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