Office of the President

Baltimore Sun op-ed: Coronavirus plea from Johns Hopkins: please take social distancing seriously to save lives

Over the past few weeks, the coronavirus pandemic has transformed life for all of us. As a country, we have taken a series of steps that would have been unimaginable a few weeks ago. Millions of Americans are working from home. Colleges, schools, churches, gyms, libraries, stores and other public places have all suspended operations or gone virtual.

This massive transformation of everyday life has one goal: to decrease person to person interactions, and thus slow transmission of the coronavirus, which is now spreading widely among Americans from coast to coast. Coronavirus is extremely contagious, and social distance can thwart this proliferation: The virus can’t infect those it can’t reach.

Read more at the Baltimore Sun.

  • Office of the President
  • 242 Garland Hall
    The Johns Hopkins University
    3400 N. Charles St.
    Baltimore, Maryland 21218
  • (410) 516-8068 (phone)
    (410) 516-6097 (fax)