Does amount of time affect COVID social distancing ?

Question

Like if you quickly walk right by someone, do you still

need to be ~6 feet away?

Answer 1

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It does, but not enough to not be distancing.   Grocery shopping is difficult. 

Answer 2

you probably still need to be 6 feet away

Answer 3

You are describing "casual contact".

Almost all covid transmission occurs between "close contacts". Within 6ft of someone for 15minutes during a 24hour period (adds up to 15minutes).

Dr. Dean Blumberg, Director of Infectious Disease at UC Davis medical school = story on 10 myths of covid.

- we don't get it at the grocery story = quickly walking by someone does not generate the type of viral load we need to create a covid infection

(I paraphrased his info)