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If every person in the world isolated for a month, would all transmissible diseases disappear?

Could some alone time solve disease? — Could some alone time solve disease? Photograph: Abstract Aerial Art/Getty Images

If every person in the world isolated from each other for a certain period of time, say a month, would all transmissible diseases disappear? Lily Pauls

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