Their faces plastered in blue makeup, some 3,500 people gathered in Western France over the weekend to break the record for the largest-ever crowd of Smurfs.
The next day, the French government banned gatherings of more than 1,000 people, in an effort to contain the spread of the airborne coronavirus. Overall, a leading Harvard epidemiologist told Science Vs he forecasts that 20 to 60 percent of adults worldwide will be infected (though some 80 percent of cases so far are mild, not severe).
Yet to avoid the ensuing disease (called COVID-19) which results in more severe cases than the flu, we now all know to diligently, if not obsessively, wash our hands. But there's another powerful weapon: avoiding each other as the virus expands, because it often spreads between us in the form of droplets expelled from our mouths and noses. This weapon is called "social distancing." It means keeping at least three feet away from someone, or avoiding crowds. Read more...
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