White House COVID Czar Admits 6-foot Social Distancing Rule ‘Not the Right Way’

White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha speaks at the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, on June 2, 2022. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

White House COVID-19 czar Ashish Jha on Tuesday admitted that the six-foot social distancing rule that was implemented in early 2020 isn’t actually effective.

Over the past several years, “a lot of time” was spent “talking about six feet of distance, 15 minutes of being together. We realize that’s actually not the right way to think about this,” he said during a White House briefing on COVID-19.