Reuters report explained.What is the science behind “social bubbles"? After all, Belgium is not the only country that is exploring this concept: New Zealand and England are other examples.
A paper from researchers at the University of Oxford, published earlier this month, explains how the “adverse social, psychological and economic consequences of a complete or near-complete lockdown demand the development of more moderate contact-reduction policies".
They introduced and assessed the effectiveness, using simulation models, of three strategies that relied on “less confinement" and allowed strategic social contact while still flattening the curve.The first model relies on contact with similar people.