VIDEO: SNL Used A Pool Noodle To Enforce Physical Distancing. We ve Got More Tips
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On Saturday Night Live, guest host Dan Levy got nudged with a pool noodle to make sure he kept 6 feet away from others.
Well, that s one way to enforce physical distancing. And we ll get to the pool noodle method but there are other strategies to keep your distance during a pandemic and reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission.
For example, I picture myself lying on the ground.
That s how I make sure I m practicing physical distancing one of the key ways to prevent coronavirus transmission along with masking up and hand washing.
In the inaugural issue of the journal
Nature Aging a research team led by aging expert Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, dean of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, synthesizes converging evidence that the aging-related pathophysiology underpinning the clinical presentation of phenotypic frailty (termed as physical frailty here) is a state of lower functioning due to severe dysregulation of the complex dynamics in our bodies that maintains health and resilience. When severity passes a threshold, the clinical syndrome and its phenotype are diagnosable. This paper summarizes the evidence meeting criteria for physical frailty as a product of complex system dysregulation. This clinical syndrome is distinct from the cumulative-deficit-based frailty index of multimorbiditys. The paper is published online here.