"What public-health and well-being policies can help alleviate some of the extraordinary stressors that urbanites are feeling right now? It is our public green spaces, our parks, botanical gardens and arboreta right outside our doors or down the street." https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/13/keep-parks-open-benefits-fresh-air-outweigh-risks-infection/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2...

One of the authors of this piece is @mlipsitch, who is a Professor of Epidemiology at @Harvard and is Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics ( @CCDD_HSPH).

He& #39;s literally a world expert in infectious diseases and is advocating for keeping parks open.

You won& #39;t believe how much pushback and rude responses I& #39;ve received re: this piece I wrote on the importance of how park access can help ensure equity and wellbeing. I hope people can trust experts like @mlipsitch with their advice on keeping parks open. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/parks-social-distancing-rules_ca_5e96f6f1c5b6ed46073a8967">https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/par...

It& #39;s important to note that @mlipsitch is co-senior author and part of a group of experts from @Harvard who wrote this (peer reviewed) paper published in @ScienceMagazine that suggests social distancing will be in effect in some capacity until 2022. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/14/science.abb5793.full">https://science.sciencemag.org/content/e...