# Five Feet Apart

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 2, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-feet-apart/830445 "2019-03-02T19:55:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-feet-apart/830445/1 "2019-03-02T19:55:31Z")

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There’s this new movie coming out soon called _Five Feet Apart_. Watching the trailer it seems that this a romance movie about two cystic fibrous patients who have to stay at least five feet apart. Did I misunderstand the trailer? Is this true? Why?

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**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-feet-apart/830445/2 "2019-03-02T20:11:14Z")

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So, I Googled this, and [saw an article about it](https://cysticfibrosisnewstoday.com/2018/11/13/cf-five-feet-apart-movie-trailer-defense-hollywood/). Looks like there’s a [cross-infection guideline](https://www.cff.org/Care/Clinical-Care-Guidelines/Infection-Prevention-and-Control-Clinical-Care-Guidelines/Infection-Prevention-and-Control-Clinical-Care-Guidelines/) that says CF patients should keep six feet apart. But the couple in this movie just want to be one foot closer together.