Here’s what epidemiologists say about choosing a destination, getting there, traveling with children, and more.
in areas where COVID-19 transmission is substantial or high.
How do these changes affect your travel plans? “It’s not where we thought we would be, perhaps even as recently as a month ago, where we thought that everything was going to get better and better. We’re in this complicated time right now where people have to make different kinds of risk calculations based on who they are, who’s in their social network and where they’re going,” said Dr. Jessica Justman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, told TODAY.
This is a different virus, and it acts differently. The recommendations for how to protect yourself, your family and others are going to keep changing over time as we learn more about this virus and as the virus continues to change.And even vaccinated people need to be cautious in the face of the delta variant. “Not only is the delta variant more transmissible, it could cause more serious disease,” Dr.
If it’s possible, consider how widespread COVID-19 is in the area you plan to visit. “If you’re trying to choose between three or four different places, it would make sense to go to a place that has less COVID,” Justman said.
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