The nation's top mental health official had spent months asking for evidence behind the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's social distancing guidelines, warning that keeping Americans ...

"Social capital" refers to connections between citizens that generate trust, reciprocity and participation in social and political life. But social capital faces enormous challenges when pitted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The CDC is no longer recommending social distancing as a way to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, it is shifting toward ...

With birthday celebrations being downsized, religious services moving back online and indoor playdates getting canceled, millions of Americans are having fewer social interactions because of ...

Newly released testimony from Dr. Francis Collins, the former Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who helped lead America’s COVID-19 pandemic response, indicates that there was a lack ...

In a recent study posted to the Research Square* preprint server researchers evaluated the effectiveness of social distancing measures adopted to curb the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ...

Adarsh Jagan SathyamoorthyUniversity of MarylandCould a COVID-19 robot help in social distancing surveillance? We spoke to Professor Dinesh Manocha and Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy about how their new ...

A study led by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University investigating social distancing behavior by college students in seven countries during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic finds that ...

When COVID-19 arrived on U.S. shores in early 2020, political leaders and public health officials had to make educated guesses. Was a complete lockdown the right move? Were there less severe options ...

The share of Americans who say they’re taking precautions against coronavirus like mask wearing and avoiding public activities is at its highest point since last spring, according to a new Axios/Ipsos ...