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Coronavirus social distancing in US drops significantly: Poll
05/15/2020
Dr. Fauci: Social distancing worked, led to reopening of America
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci says mitigation efforts worked and America can start to consider safely reopening while slowly easing social distancing measures.
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Social distancing, a practice implemented by public health officials to keep COVID-19 from spreading, has declined significantly from the height of the pandemic.
Since April, when all but few states had stay-at-home orders in place, the percentage of Americans that were completely or mostly isolating decreased at least marginally each week, including a 10 percentage-point-total decline over the past two weeks, a Gallup Poll revealed Friday.
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By May 4, 58 percent of U.S. adults reported that they are still isolating themselves to some degree, a significant decrease from the high of 75 percent from the week of March 30 to April 5, and 68 percent from April 20 to April 26, according to analysts.
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