Social distancing to combat COVID-19 is profoundly impacting society, leaving many people wondering whether it will actually work. As disease ecologists, we know that nature has an answer. In ...

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Dana Hawley is a professor of biological sciences at Virginia Tech. Julia Buck is an assistant professor of biology at University of North Carolina Wilmington. This story originally featured on The ...