Six Feet Is Not Enough and 15 Minutes Is Too Long

The coronavirus ignores this outdated social distancing measure

Robert Roy Britt
Elemental
Published in
6 min readOct 23, 2020

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just updated its definition of “close contact” with a person infected with Covid-19 — wording that should influence how all of us think about social distancing, and which will change who gets traced and notified when…

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Robert Roy Britt
Elemental

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB