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There are many concerns not only in us but also in other countries around the world as to whether to continue the social distancing measures.

The longer it is, the less effective it is and the greater the side effects.



Medical reporter Cho Dong-chan will explain in detail what alternatives are emerging.



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study from MIT University in the United States found that prolonged social distancing increases the mortality rate of the entire population by up to 29%.



A brain MRI after a person is isolated for 10 hours is similar to the state of the brain after 10 hours of starvation.



[Yeonjung Lee/Professor of the Department of Mental Health Medicine at Soonchunhyang University Hospital: There may be problems with various cognitive functions, such as decreased concentration or memory.

Then again, those things can cause depression and anxiety.]



Not only do you become more susceptible to stress, you become more violent, and your immunity decreases, making you more prone to infectious diseases.



The research team pointed out that when social distancing to prevent infectious diseases is long, it becomes weaker to infectious diseases as the'paradox of social distancing'.



The damage is more pronounced among vulnerable groups with low incomes and lower education levels.



[Lee Hyeok-min/Director of Infection Control Office of Severance Hospital: If you take lockdown (containment policy) for a month, 4-7% of American households die of starvation.

Without support for them, that's why the US can't take lockdown now.]



Recently, a research team at Harvard University in the U.S. proposed the lowest level of social distancing when the number of confirmed cases per 100,000 population is less than 1 and less than 500 people per day in Korea.



It is believed that efforts to reduce the number of deaths including other diseases other than Corona 19 are more important than the number of confirmed cases.



Although Korea and the United States differ in population and size of land, it seems clear that quarantine measures must be sustainable.



(Video coverage: Park Hyeon-cheol, video editing: Hwang Ji-young)