{"id":1978,"date":"2020-11-04T12:10:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2020-11-05T12:13:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:13:59","slug":"avoiding-versus-contracting-covid-19-on-the-effectiveness-of-social-distancing-at-the-level-of-the-individual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/04\/avoiding-versus-contracting-covid-19-on-the-effectiveness-of-social-distancing-at-the-level-of-the-individual\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding versus Contracting COVID-19 On the Effectiveness of Social Distancing at the Level of the Individual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] <\/i>A participant\u2019s behavior during behavioral simulation of social distancing behaviors was associated with the risk of subsequently contracting COVID-19, whereas self-report of these behaviors was not. Results from a survey among 2,120 US residents determined that an individual\u2019s performance in a simulator intended to assess physical positioning was associated with lower risk of COVID-19 illness over the subsequent 4 months (OR=0.8), but self-reports of social distancing behavior did not show a significant association with infection of SARS-CoV-2. This association was maintained when considering only participants who were positive for SARS-CoV-2 and when considering participants who were untested but believed that they had been infected.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Fazio et al. (Nov 3, 2020). Avoiding versus Contracting COVID-19 On the Effectiveness of Social Distancing at the Level of the Individual. Pre-print downloaded Nov 4 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.29.20222422\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.29.20222422<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] A participant\u2019s behavior during behavioral simulation of social distancing behaviors was associated with the risk of subsequently contracting COVID-19, whereas self-report of these behaviors was not. Results from a survey among 2,120 US residents determined that an individual\u2019s performance in a simulator intended to assess physical positioning was associated with lower risk&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/04\/avoiding-versus-contracting-covid-19-on-the-effectiveness-of-social-distancing-at-the-level-of-the-individual\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,37,75,103,76],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-candidate","tag-non-pharm-interventions","tag-report","tag-social-distancing","tag-summarize","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}