MIT Study on Indoor Social Distancing: ‘No Difference Between 6 Feet and 60 Feet’
April 27th, 2021Via: Fox:
A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology challenges the widespread social distancing guidelines, asserting that the “six-foot rule” is “inadequate” in mitigating indoor transmission of COVID-19.
MIT professors Martin Bazant and John Bush found that people who maintain six feet of distance indoors are no more protected than if they were 60 feet apart – even when wearing a mask.
The peer-reviewed study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, focused on factors such as time spent indoors, air filtration and circulation, immunization and variant strains.
“What our analysis continues to show is that many spaces that have been shut down in fact don’t need to be,” Bazant explained to CNBC. “Often times the space is large enough, the ventilation is good enough, the amount of time people spend together is such that those spaces can be safely operated even at full capacity and the scientific support for reduced capacity in those spaces is really not very good.”
“I think if you run the numbers, even right now for many types of spaces you’d find that there is not a need for occupancy restrictions,” he added.
