Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/RxyARQYsrkA   Personal physical distancing strongly correlates with decreased CoVid19 case growth rates in the 25 most affected counties in the United States.  This the conclusion of a Johns Hopkins study that quantitates the degree of distancing using cell phone data on a county-wide basis.   The investigators were able to calculate a social distancing ratio for each US county by dividing the number representing average cell phone travel over a 3 month period during the CoVid pandemic with historic data. This ratio was then compared with CoVid infection prevalence.   With initiation of local and state lock-downs over time, the social distancing ratio as well as the incidence of new CoVid cases has dropped significantly.   https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.07.20092353v1.full.pdf   #covid #pandemic #distancing