Nervous about dialing down your COVID precautions? Here's a comic & zine📔 with advice from our experts ✅Check if COVID cases are low in your community 😷If dining indoors, wear a mask when not eating 📏Don't forget that 6 ft still makes a difference
I live in a place where case counts are dropping. I know they could go back up again, but in the meantime, what COVID precautions are advisable and what precautions can be put on hold?
But for the vaccinated and boosted in places where numbers are trending downward, times have changed — at least for the moment. Mandatory and even voluntary mask-wearing is on the wane. "Maybe go when it's not super-crowded, sit in the corner where fewer people are crowded up against you or at a table where you're not that close to other people, wear a mask when you're not eating," she suggests. She also recommends picking a restaurant with good ventilation —"it matters a lot" in terms of disrupting the flow of exhaled pathogens."I'm thinking of restaurants with high ceilings and open windows, not a cramped basement.
Some people are sticking with their pandemic precautions because they are at high risk of severe disease or have regular contact with others in that category. This would include the over-60 set, the immunocompromised, people who regularly see an elderly relative or babies ., assistant professor of adult and pediatric infectious diseases at Baylor College of Medicine. COVID-19 precautions are"engrained in your daily behaviors," she says.
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