Here's how doctors say you can see your friends safely

How to reach a "Quarantine Pod" can make you happier and keep you healthy.


Quarantine may have seemed a little novel about two months ago. Perhaps you have benefited from pausing some commitments, embedded in a project you have put, or simply revealed you from the excuse to carry tracking pants everyday. But thecoronavirus pandemic has not been canceled, andStates that started reopening see an increase in cases. All signs seem to be pointed out of the summer hunt for the summer to be our best choice for finally having a handful on the disease. But there are also other concerns, such as burning, depression or farting simply about quarantine that you are forced to take unnecessary risks. As a longer-term strategy, new research shows that "quarantine lodges" could be the surest way to start socializing again. If you and people from your pod are cautious, you will not have to wait for the pandemic to be completed to see your friends. And for more tips to help you in the coming months, check19 summer hobbies that you can always do during the quarantine

What is a quarantine pod?

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The slate definesa quarantine lug As "the combination of two or some isolated households, making an isolated unit larger". If you know another family or other friend who is strict about social distance, remain as much as possible and wear masks in public as you wish, you behave essentially as if they were isolatedwithyou. For example, two friends who all isolated alone and live very close to each other can choose to dinner together or take a walk without the recommended distance of six feet away, being surely safe that none of them n. 'is infected.

The key is that all people involved must be serious not to slip. If a person of your forty pod decides to go to the grocery store without mask, they are not only at higher risk of bringing an infection to your pod, but also to spread any infection that can be comingofyour pod. One of the benefits that researchers are investigating podes would make all infections that occur relatively easy to follow.

A quarantine clove - or a "bubble", some - protects people from being thereandpeople outside that.

Are quarantine pods safe?

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The slate play quotes a pre-printed study (and not yet to peers examined) in the search store, which was conducted by researchers in Oxford, ETH Zurich and at the University of Zurich. The models of modeled infection of the study for three differentStrategies for easing isolation and increase social contact, while respecting the proven benefits of distancing. Of these three scenarios, "limiting interaction to some repeated contacts" maintains the lowest projected infection rates.

ThroughThe Guardian,Stefan Flasche, PhD, an epidemiologist and a mathematical model at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is also studyingThe possible effectiveness of pods (or "contact clustering), but the results are still weeks.

Obviously, having a contact with some people outside your home, even if they have also observed that social distance, involves more risk than staying completely isolated. But it's a responsible way to expand your circle that can do this for the long term seems more manageable.

Are there other benefits too?

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If you count on someone's childcare who does not live at home, you already do it. The same see for those who take care of members of the elderly family or anyone else who needs a small help. Join a forty POD can mean sharing tasks, such as cooking, purchases or support for orders. A day off school schooling seems attractive? Yes, we thought. And for more advice to improve your well-being, see17 mental health councils for quarantine therapists.

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